innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

This paper analyzes empirically the channels through which university research affects industry innovation. We examine … innovation systems. We find that creation of a new university department increased regional innovation activity 3-4 years later …

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 …

agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …

Employing empirical data, this study examines the innovation response of private Nigerian brewing firms to a state … innovation success of firms that survived and prospered under a decidedly turbulent industrial environment. State action, which …

Is innovation important for development? And if so, how? One popular perception of innovation, that one meets in media … exploitation of the most recent advances in knowledge. Such innovation is normally seen as carried out by highly educated labour in …. Hence innovation in this sense is a typical “first world” activity. There is, however, another way to look at innovation …