research questions and in the development of analytical work in policy-oriented innovation studies. Despite the fact that … Evolutionary and Innovation Studies theories have offered new ways of incorporating policy, little explicitness in this regard has … yet been achieved and there is a risk that academic research following the new perspectives will be of little relevance …

inter-organizational interactions in the country's biotechnological system of innovation, using public research institutes … contacts between various agents in the system of innovation, including firms, universities, traditional medicine practitioners …

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 … a range of other innovation management tasks (ii) The starting point for making use of research need not necessarily be …

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 …This paper is a synthesis of research undertaken as part of the Research Into Use programme (RIU) to explore the …

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 …

research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …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 …

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

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and … and specialised labour - necessary for product innovation in imperfect markets. …