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Promoting Local Innovation : Enhancing IK Dynamics and Links with Scientific Knowledge
World Bank - 2012
Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources and fully internalized within local ways of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process...
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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence
Lederman, Daniel - 2009
contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …
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Advancing Innovation in the Republic of Tatarstan : A Framework for Competing and Thriving in the Global Economy
World Bank - 2013
This report provides recommendations for transforming Tartarstan's traditional industrial economy into a globally competitive, knowledge based economy, and for involving Russia in the development process. A broad range of innovation policies are best handled at the regional level and are...
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The role of opinion leaders in the diffusion of new knowledge : the case of integrated pest management
Savastano, Sara - 2006
empirical results. "--World Bank web site …
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The Art of Knowledge Exchange : A Primer for Government Officials and Development Practitioners
World Bank - 2014
World Bank, NRB leadership was eager to learn how to apply Pakistan's regulatory analysis in Nepal. The World Bank …
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ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
World Bank - 2011
The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders … greater world, today, networks of information and communication technologies (ICTs) enmesh the globe and represent a … and the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank Group, with significant contributions from outside …
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Knowledge Map : Impact of ICTs on Learning and Achievement
World Bank - 2012
It is generally believed that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can empower teachers and learners, promote change and foster the development of '21st century skills, but data to support these beliefs are still limited. There is widespread belief that ICTs can and will empower...
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Knowledge Map : School-Level Issues
World Bank - 2012
Best practice exists for most issues relating to uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education at the school level. Despite the wealth of documentation mentioned, little if any of this knowledge and information appears to have been incorporated into planning for and...
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Linking Agricultural Innovations to Knowledge Sharing in Africa
World Bank - 2012
Most recent African indigenous knowledge (IK) literature, especially in agriculture, emphasizes that Africans are informed innovators. This literature is filled with success stories; excellent examples of local innovations and discoveries include crop breeding, grafting against pests, water...
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Knowledge Map : Teachers, Teaching and ICTs
World Bank - 2012
Teacher training and on-going, relevant professional development are essential if benefits from investments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) are to be maximized. A shift in the role of a teacher utilizing ICTs to that of a facilitator does not obviate the need for teachers to...
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