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Dynamics of biosciences regulation and opportunities for biosciences innovation in Africa: Exploring regulatory policy brokering

Kingiri, Ann; Hall, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are organised toward technological development. This paper reflects upon the role of different organisations as knowledge brokers in regulatory policy processes towards putting...

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Putting agricultural research into use: Lessons from contested visions of innovation

Hall, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper is a synthesis of research undertaken as part of the Research Into Use programme (RIU) to explore the question of how agricultural research can be used more effectively to improve agricultural production and farmers' livelihoods in developing countries. Many of the challenges the...

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Absorptive Capacity and Export Diversification in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Habiyaremye, Alexis; Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper examines the extent to which dependence on primary commodities in Sub-Saharan African(SSA) countries can be explained by low levels of absorptive capacity (the ability to acquire, internalize and utilize knowledge developed elsewhere). We examine the individual and combined effects of...

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Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond knowledge brokering has resulted in a changing landscape of the intermediary domain in an increasingly market-driven agricultural sector in developing countries. This paper...

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Portrait of an Odd-Eyed Cat: Cultural Crossing as a Trademark for a Dutch-Thai Strategic Alliance

Kwanjai, Nantawan Noi; Hertog, J. Friso den - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

culture and learning in organizations based on observations of and open-ended interviews with Dutch and Thai employees working …, became its indispensible trademark. The case illustrates how the three levels of culture – national, organizational, and … on how this case and our interpretation of it illuminate the complex role culture can play in the dynamics of strategic …

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Caste as Community? Networks of social affinity in a South Indian village

Arora, Saurabh; Sanditov, Bulat - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

We examine three theories of caste and community using new data on social networks among residents of a south Indian village. The first theory treats individual caste groups as separated communities driven by the Brahmanical ideology of hierarchy based on purity and pollution. The second theory...

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China's economic embrace of Africa: An international comparative perspective

Broich T.; Szirmai A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper discusses the entry of China into the game of foreign finance in Africa. It analyses the scope, destination and sectoral distribution of Chinese financial flows and trade in comparison with Western patterns and trends of aid, foreign direct investment FDI and trade. Chinas foreign aid...

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Remittances provide resilience against disasters in Africa

Naudé, Wim; Bezuidenhout, Henri - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

How responsive are remittances to various disasters, both natural and human-made? And would remittances be affected by systemic financial crises (such as the 2008/09 financial crisis)? Using panel data on 23 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 1980 to 2007, we find that...

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Economic restructuring and total factor productivity growth: Tunisia over the period 1983-2001

Ghali, Sofiane; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

In this paper we aim to measure and decompose the growth of frontier total factor productivity (TFP) in Tunisia over the period 1983-2001. We define frontier TFP growth as the shift of the economy's production frontier, which we obtain by solving for each year a linear program, a sort of...

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Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Fresh evidence from African countries

Kwasi Fosu A.; Getachew Y.Y.; Ziesemer T.H.W. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper develops a model positing a nonlinear relationship between public investment and growth. The model is then applied to a panel of African countries using nonlinear estimating procedures. The growth-maximizing level of public investment is estimated at about 10 percent of GDP based on...

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