Land administration research regularly links to other disciplinary areas for inspiration, invention, and alternative solutions: concepts from outside the study area can help to look at older problems in a new light. With this paper, we follow this trend and introduce the ‘Knowledge Innovation Value Chain Model’ (KIVCM) as a tool to support implementable and scalable land administration research. The idea is to make land administration R&D more visible to key stakeholders, and more innovation-oriented so as to enhance its applicability. As such, the model proposed by Allen et al (2008) is adapted. The model shows how scientific research can be developed from foundation R&D through to t...