Human capital development is considered as the major source of knowledge and skills in the innovation process. Despite … beneficiaries of the South Africa’s land reform program, thus, limiting their full potential in terms of innovation and productivity … capital development on innovation and innovation on farm productivity, based on a case study of 65 emerging sugarcane farmers …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago … century or two. This chapter reviews innovation and technical change in agriculture in this more-recent period, paying …

emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …