of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples … drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach …

knowledge in African industry. First, we examined modes of learning proxied by training in small and medium firms. We found that … elementary learning mechanisms such as apprenticeship, resulting in the creation of tacit knowledge, are the dominant forms of … learning. While knowledge externalities tend to benefit larger firms, small enterprises with little absorptive capacity are …

In recent years public policies for science, technology and innovation have attracted increased attention as a result … of claims that knowledge-intensive industries are now at the core of growth, and that we are now entering a completely … new form of 'knowledge society'. The objectives of this paper are firstly to examine what various authors mean by the …

asks how institutions shape the system of innovation (SI). The context of underdevelopment exhibits distinct system … different contexts, it introduces the idea of a System of Learning Innovation in Development (SLID) that emphasizes individual … and organizational competence building. The differences between “Advanced” Systems of Innovation (ASI) and two types of …

transformed into innovation systems. Of critical importance in this regard is the way in which both industries have become tacit-knowledge … increasingly evident over the 1970s and 1980s. These were the growing knowledge intensity of production which gradually extended to … cover a broad spectrum of traditional industries and the emergence of innovation-based competition and its globalization as …

. For instance, the intensity of adoption of e-business technologies in the skill-and-knowledge-intensive electrical and …

arguments address the agreement, i.e. market-oriented, regulation, path-dependent knowledge dynamics and network synergies, and …

inter-organizational interactions in the country's biotechnological system of innovation, using public research institutes … contacts between various agents in the system of innovation, including firms, universities, traditional medicine practitioners …

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and … and specialised labour - necessary for product innovation in imperfect markets. …