This book examines the role of local knowledge in promoting agricultural innovation and legislative support for …Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Intellectual Property and agricultural innovation -- Chapter 3. Bioprospecting … source biotechnology -- Cha[ter 8. Geographical indications -- Chapter 9. Legislative support for agricultural innovation in …

This open access book explores the impact of deep regional economic integration on spillovers of knowledge and …

The Philosophy of Paradigm Change in the History of Social Evolution -- Paradigm Changes in Technological Knowledge … Connections in Urban Innovation Systems -- International Standardization of the New Technology Paradigm: A Strategy for Royalty …-Free Intellectual Property -- New roles for Japanese companies at the knowledge-based economy -- Paradigm Shifts in the TFT-LCD Industry …

innovation. This book adds value to current knowledge by presenting both a conceptual framework and case studies which describe … commercialization on university research and knowledge. It argues that different types of university-industry interaction may have …

collaborate with colleagues around the world, creating a network which rises above national systems. The globalization of science … is part of the underlying shift in knowledge creation generally: the collaborative era in science. Over the past decade …, the growth in the amount of knowledge and the speed at which it is available has created a fundamental shift-where data …

knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel … for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has … the role of place, space and spatial scales has been somewhat neglected outside an emergent geography of knowledge. The …

? Introducing the ‘innovation paradox’ as the main challenge to the West and the notion of ‘knowledge democracy’ as key to … Democracy, Innovation and Economic Efficiency -- Chapter 5: Knowledge Democracy as Key to the Twenty-First Century …). It is a vital reading for all those questioning what kind of democracy positively impacts innovation as the force whose …

Learning -- Research Methods -- The INNOSPACE Experience -- The Role of Prior Knowledge in Opportunity Identification … knowledge at the opportunity identification phase, progresses through the acquisition of new skills and knowledge necessary to … develop an opportunity and concludes with a transformation phase where new knowledge is acted upon. The book draws on …

university-industry knowledge transfer: a conceptual framework -- 6. Determinants of contract renewals in university …