This paper argues that three major issues need to be addressed when examining the effects of the WTO's TRIPs agreement on capability building in developing economies. First, the agreement looks at seven instruments, which have both common as well as differing implications for capability building...

Open innovation has become a popular approach, especially since 2003, as people began purposively managing, evolving and harnessing knowledge flows across organizational boundaries but through increasing connections with systemic knowledge nodes relevant to the innovation process. The creation...

In this paper we suggest that technological acquisition and innovation by firms involve new investment, and thus require a financial decision as well as a technological one. The level of analysis is the southern European countries and the impact of the European integration process on sectoral...

This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised...

Using field level data collected in Nigeria in 2003-2004, this paper examines the possibilities for learning through inter-organizational interactions in the country's biotechnological system of innovation, using public research institutes as an example. The paper considers inter-organizational...

The growing interest in clusters, understood mainly in terms of spatial agglomerations of enterprises and related supplier and service industries, can be traced back to two changes in the competitive environment of the firm that became increasingly evident over the 1970s and 1980s. These were...

The challenges presented to the Korean Innovation System require several fundamental and structural changes. Some are more directly related to particular innovation actors and activities; but some are, directly and indirectly, related to the much wider context of the economic system as a whole....