Search Results - subject:"Local Knowledge"

South-South Cooperation and Knowledge Exchange : A perspective from civil society

Cruz, Anabel - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 2, pp. 25-26

South-South cooperation is not new. It has been around for several decades in the form of economic integration, cultural exchanges, and technical cooperation. Traditional North-South cooperation, however, with resources coming from the rich northern countries to the poor southern ones has been...

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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: location of start-ups relative to incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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Local knowledge as strategic resource: Fishery in the seasonal floodplains of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Gerke, Solvay; Ehlert, Judith - 2009

landless people during the annual flood season from a local knowledge perspective. It will be argued that local knowledge turns … like 'light' hence the strategic moment as well as the tacit component of local knowledge makes its sharing a technically …. Local knowledge as adaptive asset in this process of changing society-water relationships will be analyzed. …

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Sustainable Agriculture and Innovation Adoption in a Tropical Small-Scale Food Production System: The Case of Yam Minisetts in Jamaica

Beckford, Clinton L. - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 1, pp. 81-96

Grown in Jamaica since the days of slavery, food yams are major staples in local diets and a significant non-traditional export crop. The cultivation system used today is the same as 300 years ago, with alleged unsustainable practices. A new cultivation system called minisett was introduced in...

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Local knowledge as strategic resource : fishery in the seasonal floodplains of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Gerke, Solvay - 2009

landless people during the annual flood season from a local knowledge perspective. It will be argued that local knowledge turns … like "light" hence the strategic moment as well as the tacit component of local knowledge makes its sharing a technically …. Local knowledge as adaptive asset in this process of changing society-water relationships will be analyzed. …

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Is there a local knowledge advantage in federations? Evidence from a natural experiment

Schultz, André; Libman, Alexander - In: Public Choice 162 (2015) 1, pp. 25-42

In economics, the local knowledge advantage is arguably one of the key arguments in favor of decentralizing the public … local knowledge advantage in a real-world setting. Specifically, it looks at the variation in local knowledge across regions … responses of regional governors in Russia to disastrous forest fires in 2010. We confirm that local knowledge improves …

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Building boundary capabilities at the base of the pyramid

Mezias, Stephen; Fakhreddin, Mohamad - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 4 (2015) 1, pp. 111-133

Purpose – Over the last 15 years, articles about the base of the pyramid (BOP) have begun to appear in scholarly business journals. Although attention was driven initially by claims that corporations could earn a fortune selling to these consumers, it became clear that this is difficult. The...

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Planning adaptation based on local actors' knowledge and participation : a climate governance experiment

Cloutier, Geneviève; Joerin, Florent; Dubois, Catherine; … - In: Climate policy 15 (2015) 4, pp. 458-474

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The impact of local knowledge on banking

Bird, Robert C.; Knopf, John Donald - In: Journal of financial services research : JFSR 48 (2015) 1, pp. 1-20

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Is there a local knowledge advantage in federations? : evidence from a natural experiment

Schultz, André; Libman, Alexander - In: Public choice 162 (2015) 1/2, pp. 25-42

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