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Foreign Direct Investment, Firm-Level Capabilities and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Kenyan Manufacturing Industry

Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm-level capabilities in human capital development. It undertakes a detailed descriptive comparison of human capital and other firm-level capabilities generated by both foreign and...

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Private Capacity and Public Failure: Contours of Livestock Innovation Response Capacity in Kenya

Keskin, Ekin; Steglich, Mirjam; Dijkman, Jeroen; Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

to present what "innovation response capacity" entails, especially for natural resourcebased industries in a developing … country context. It will also provide an analytical framework that draws elements from agricultural innovation capacity and … the innovation systems framework. This is provided through case study research conducted in Kenya by exploring two …

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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 …

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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...

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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,...

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Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond … include fostering integration and interaction among the diverse actors engaged in innovation networks and working on … technological, organisational and institutional innovation. Further, the study identified various organisational arrangements of …

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Dynamics of biosciences regulation and opportunities for biosciences innovation in Africa: Exploring regulatory policy brokering

Kingiri, Ann; Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are …

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