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drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The problem is most acute in India, China, many countries of Africa and a few … poor in India. It examines the toilet history and achievements of India, the innovations in the market for toilets …
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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 …
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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 …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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improve our understanding of how governance structures influence entrepreneurship and innovation it is instructive to consider …Governance is often treated as a 'black box' explanation for unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship. In order to … game of informal clientelism and formal programmatic competition shapes entrepreneurship. In this paper I provide an …
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This discussion paper explores aspects of innovation systems ideas in the analysis of mango production and export by … and being the largest international mango producer, India still struggles to build momentum in rapidly emerging export … to aspects of integrated technology development and innovation management. …
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in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …The present paper examines how a developing country like India is competing in the nanotechnology race. Our study shows …. India has clearly made a dent in terms of scientific publications (with the main focus being on nanomaterials), in the …
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Tuberculosis remains the biggest infectious killer in India and worldwide, and it has recently regained substantial … changing and with it challenges and opportunities to control the disease. Innovation in a variety of areas such as improved … to respond to the changing public health challenge. This paper reviews theoretical approaches to innovation of direct …
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innovation and flexibility of a public health system in a country like India. The discussions and reactions to MDR-TB indicate … start to understand what flexibility and innovation could mean for a public health challenge such as TB in India. The paper … flexibility and innovation in public health systems is needed in order to react to changing challenges. This paper will take these …
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This paper sets out to explore the nature of new organisational and institutional vehicles for managing innovation in …-the-radar innovation. For each of these classes of innovation management vehicles this review has mapped the diversity of emerging examples … these new and as yet poorly-understood modes of innovation that have the greatest potential to effect change, although …
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