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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323002
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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497689
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Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and Their Interplay
Niosi, Jorge; Tschang, F. Ted - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
the MNC. At the same time, the innovation systems perspective is necessary to explain the foundations of the industry. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150789
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Approach for Analysing Capabilities in Latecomer Software Companies
Rousseva, Rossitza - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
Software development activities have been identified as a 'window of opportunity' for latecomer companies. Notwithstanding the growth of software development activities in the latecomers, there are single exceptional cases of companies that have successfully launched their own products in global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150798
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Technology Supply Chain or Innovation Capacity?: Contrasting Experiences of Promoting Small Scale Irrigation Technology in South Asia
Hall, Andy; Clark, Norman; Naik, Guru - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150835
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The origins and implications of using innovation systems perspectives in the design and implementation of agricultural research projects: Some personal observations
Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
In recent years the there has been an increasing recognition of the potential of the innovation systems concept to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451580
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Technological Capabilities with Different Degree of Coherence: A Comparative Study of Domestic-Oriented vs. Export-Driven Bulgarian Software Companies
Rousseva, Rossitza - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
The paper makes an attempt to examine systematically the capabilities for software production in a latecomer context and to propose an approach for analysing the technological capabilities (TC) in a latecomer software industry. Taking the analysis one step further than identifying capabilities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451582