Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …

Research and development is a crucial activity in the innovation process. Not every firm is in a position to overcome …

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 …

the MNC. At the same time, the innovation systems perspective is necessary to explain the foundations of the industry. The …

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 …