Auch 'angepaßte' Mechanisierungstechnologien haben einen vielschichtigen Wandel afrikanischer Agrarstrukturen zur Folge. Aufbauend auf den institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen, die die Verbreitung von Ochsenanspannung in kleinbäuerlichen Betriebssystemen begünstigen, werden vor allem am...

This paper adapts the principles of the new developing New Institutional and Transaction Cost Economics (integrating Economics, Organization, Law, Political and Behavioral Sciences) to the area of agrarian research and innovations. The major institutional, behavioral, dimensional, technological...

The present study picks up on the aspect of knowledge generation - a key part of every national innovation system - in the context of the USA and the Russian Federation. Following Fritsch and Slavtchev (2006) a knowledge production function can be used to account for the efficiency of an...

Through a survey of CEOs of Russian industrial companies administered in the second half of 2011 we have tried to understand the forces that lead some firms to decide to engage in more innovative activities than others and examined the types of routines associated with this decision. We found...