Innovation has a role to play to mitigate water-related risks and to support the provision of water services on which … our well-being and sustainable development depend. Water-related innovation originate in a wide range of countries, with …

structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …

innovation in these cities. …

, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …

well-designed environmental policies can provide a ‘free lunch’ – encouraging innovation, bringing about gains in …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with … patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in narrow technological fields, such as many environment …

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used in agricultural innovation to leverage public funds, enhance … efficiency, and improve the adaptation of innovation to demand so as to foster wider and faster diffusion. For governments, PPPs … for innovation are but one policy option, whose costs and benefits need to be compared with those of other options …