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...

This paper explores the structure of the project-based innovation networks promoted by tax incentives to innovation activities in the Brazilian ICT sector (“ICT Law”). It proposes a framework for characterizing the decentralized governance of innovation projects in sectors, identifying (i)...

This paper synthesizes five determinants of innovation and productivity of a nation. They are namely: (1) human resources and their characteristics, (2) natural and physical resources and their characteristics, (3) systems and strategies and their characteristics, (4) interactions and...

This paper reviews the main contributions of organisational innovation in the literature towards bringing a sustainable organisation and development. The review basically illustrates four main interrelated concepts: organisational innovation, organisational performance, sustainable organisation...

The graphical method presented herein allows solving the problem of selecting an innovation project under discount rate uncertainty. The principle of the method consists in plotting NPV graphs of two projects under review on the interval of discount rates, where NPV of at least one project is...

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...

The dilemma between radical and market innovations is unlighted here by a simulation. Following evolutionist theory and innovation management, an agent-based model issued from genetic algorithm is built. In a perfect world, transformation and selection create dynamics and emergence in an agent...

This paper analyses the relationship between total factor productivity (TFP) and innovation-related variables during the second half of the twentieth century. We perform this analysis for several European countries (France, Germany, UK, and Spain) and the USA, extending Coe and Helpman’s (Eur...

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the net economic benefits associated with the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We offer a derivation of producer and consumer surplus to estimate economic benefits. Fundamental to the implementation of these models is a specific...

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...