innovation. The paper begins by reviewing the evolving paradigms of agricultural research and innovation over the last 30 years … or so and explains the emergence and relevance of the innovation systems concept to agricultural development. The paper … then presents a framework for exploring fodder innovation capacity. This framework gives particular emphasis to the …

has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …

capacity building in the origin country through knowledge transfer, innovation and technological change. The paper specifically …

The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … and economic objectives and in which business competition is increasingly based on innovation. As highlighted on the basis …

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 …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

need to be viewed in the framework of an innovation system and a development scenario where networks of agro … suggesting that efforts should be focused on building social capital in agricultural innovation systems and cautions that this …

agricultural innovation capacity. It explains that contemporary patterns of agricultural development demand fresh thinking on how … innovation can be promoted in ways that can deal with rapidly evolving production and market conditions. The innovation systems … concept is presented as a framework for examining the notion of innovation capacity. The second part of the paper provides …