industry can benefit from public R&D investment to actively develop indigenous innovation. …

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 …

in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming …, this paper sheds light on the various sources of firm learning, investment and collaboration and their relative importance … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and …

In this paper we suggest that technological acquisition and innovation by firms involve new investment, and thus … impact of the European integration process on sectoral innovation and industrial restructuring processes. The paper suggests … investment decisions and in the long run on the profitability of these projects. In consequence, as the structure and behaviour …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

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 …

the uncertainties mentioned above. In order to model this type of investment behaviour, we use an extended version of the … van Zon and Fuss (2005) clay-clay-vintage-portfolio model that starts from the notion that investment in electricity …, in combination with the expectation of a future switch towards another technology, may actually reduce current investment …

knowledge investment generates the public resources for the development of social welfare models capable of addressing rapid …