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Breaking the Fence: Patent Rights and Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing … pharmaceutical industry between November 2004 and January 2005 is used to analyze the impact of patent rights as recognized under the …
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Determinants of quadic patenting: Market access, imitative threat, competition and strength of intellectual property rights
Huang, Can; Jacob, Jojo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
advance the notion of quadic patent family, defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications at the European … Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the national patent office of a … a sample of 38 countries. Our results indicate that quadic patent applications are driven by the need for accessing …
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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has 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...
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Bottom-up, Bottom-line: Development-Relevant Enterprises in East Africa and their Significance for Agricultural Innovation
Hall, Andy; Clark, Norman; Frost, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Over the last 10 years much has been written about the role of the private sector as part of a more widely-conceived notion of agricultural sector capacity for innovation and development. This paper discusses the emergence of a new class of private enterprise in East Africa that would seem to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856412
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Research Into Use: Investigating the Relationship between Agricultural Research and Innovation
Hall, Andy; Dijkman, Jeroen; Sulaiman, Rasheed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
This paper sets out an analytical framework for doing research on the question of how to use agricultural research for innovation and impact. Its focus is the Research Into Use programme sponsored by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). This is one example of a new type of...
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The origins and implications of using innovation systems perspectives in the design and implementation of agricultural research projects: Some personal observations
Hall, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
In recent years the there has been an increasing recognition of the potential of the innovation systems concept to provide new ways of making more effective use of agricultural research and improve its impact on socially desirable outcomes. This paper documents the experiences of a group of...
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Concepts and guidelines for diagnostic assessments of agricultural innovation capacity
Hall, Andy; Mytelka, Lynn; Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
This paper is divided into two parts. The first part sets out a conceptual framework for diagnostic assessments of agricultural innovation capacity. It explains that contemporary patterns of agricultural development demand fresh thinking on how innovation can be promoted in ways that can deal...
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Globalization, the rise of biotechnology and catching up in agricultural innovation: The case of Bt technology in India
Iizuka M.; Thutupalli A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
agricultural sector 1 has become knowledge intensive with the rise of biotechnology Bt; and 2 is a sector where firms in developing … agricultural innovation against the backdrop of globalization and rise of biotechnology. We then examine the case of diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004580
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What Do Complex Adaptive Systems Look Like and What Are the Implications for Innovation Policy?
Hall, Andy; Clark, Norman - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
This paper explores the use of complex adaptive systems theory in development policy analysis using a case study drawn from recent events in Uganda. It documents the changes that took place in the farming system in Soroti district during an outbreak of African cassava mosaic virus disease...
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The when and where of research in agricultural innovation trajectories: Evidence and implications from RIU's South Asia projects
Reddy, Vamsidhar; Hall, Andy; Sulaiman, Rasheed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer of ideas from research to farmers has been largely discredited. Agricultural innovation is a...
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