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been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
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Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …
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presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …
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to present what "innovation response capacity" entails, especially for natural resourcebased industries in a developing … country context. It will also provide an analytical framework that draws elements from agricultural innovation capacity and … the innovation systems framework. This is provided through case study research conducted in Kenya by exploring two …
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We review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and econometric issues that arise when estimating the models. We then provide a series of tables summarizing the...
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about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …
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This discussion paper explores aspects of innovation systems ideas in the analysis of mango production and export by … to aspects of integrated technology development and innovation management. …
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need to be viewed in the framework of an innovation system and a development scenario where networks of agro … suggesting that efforts should be focused on building social capital in agricultural innovation systems and cautions that this …
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The most effective approach to agricultural technology promotion and innovation is still a source of considerable … agricultural innovation stress the importance of institutional change and give emphasis to the need to develop innovation capacity … (v) Market demand as key an incentive for innovation; and (vi) Policies and institutional innovations to ensure adequate …
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This paper surveys what we know about the internationalization of business R&D spending. I examine three specific questions about the global changes in R&D activity: First, what is the evidence that R&D is becoming more internationalized (more footloose)? Second, what are the factors that...
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