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 …