• Towards a more effective innovation promotion : learning lessons from the Bio-N fertilizer experience; a policy brief 

  Unknown author (2011-04)

  Concerted efforts to reorient farmers’ perceptions about the positive effects of biofertilizers on productivity and income are needed, as farmers have typically been conditioned to the advantages of chemical input– intensive ...
• Introduction to special issue : interactions between public research organisations and industry in Latin America; a study on channels and benefits from the perspective of firms and researchers 

  Unknown author (Beech Tree Publishing, 2010)

  This special issue discusses the relative effectiveness of different channels of interaction between public research organisations (PROs) and industry in driving specific types of benefits for researchers and firms in ...
• Channels, benefits and risks of public–private interactions for knowledge transfer: conceptual framework inspired by Latin America 

  Arza, Valeria (Beech Tree Publishing, 2010)

  There are both benefits and risks involved in interactions between public research organisations (PROs) and industry. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that associates firms’ and PROs’ motivations, channels of ...
• Academy-industry links in Brazil: evidence about channels and benefits for firms and researchers 

  Unknown author (Beech Tree Publishing, 2010)

  Knowledge flows between universities, public research institutes and firms may take various channels according to agents’ motivations and expected benefits. Models were estimated to investigate which channels of interaction ...
• Interactions between public research organisations and industry in Argentina 

  Unknown author (Beech Tree Publishing, 2010)

  There are various channels for the exchange of knowledge between public research organisations (PROs) and industry (I). This paper discusses the relative effectiveness of different channels in Argentina. We use micro-data ...
• Channels of interaction between public research organisations and industry and their benefits: evidence from Mexico 

  Dutrénit, Gabriela; De Fuentes, Claudia; Torres, Arturo (Beech Tree Publishing, 2010)

  The process of knowledge transfer between public research organisations and industry occurs through multiple channels of interaction, however, there are differences in terms of the benefits that the agents perceive. Based ...
• Quality of interactions between public research organisations and firms: lessons from Costa Rica 

  Unknown author (Beech Tree Publishing, 2010)

  Interactions between public research organisations (PROs) and firms may contribute to innovation and production-related benefits for firms and intellectual and economic benefits for researchers. This paper studies the ...
• Channels and benefits of interactions between public research organisations and industry: comparing four Latin American countries 

  Unknown author (Beech Tree Publishing, 2010)

  This paper compares the results of four country studies (Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico) on the relative effectiveness of channels of interactions between public research organisations (PROs) and industry in ...
• Innovation Systems in sub-Saharan Africa and innovation indicators 

  Unknown author (2010-09)

  The presentation reflects on components of innovation systems and innovation system frameworks, including a bias towards the manufacturing sector. Coexistence of a formal sector with a large and growing informal sector is ...
• Interaction between Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Indicators and the STI Policy Agenda 

  Unknown author (2010-09)

  The presentation analyzes how STI Indicators may adversely affect policy, and articulates how African countries could be enabled to shape directions of change in the technologies they use. The statistics/indicators problem ...
• OECD Innovation Strategy and the Development Agenda 

  Gault, Fred (2010-09)

  The presentation emphasizes that the activity of innovation is not an isolated event. A systems approach is implicit in the OECD Innovation Strategy and the Oslo Manual, as innovation requires support through policy and ...
• Indicators of Science, Technology and Innovation Presenation 

  Gault, Fred (2010-09)

  This presentation provides valuable references to various manuals/guidelines that can discriminate differences between indicators, such as those for Research and Development, and those that apply to Science and Technology. ...
• Building the knowledge base for innovation 

  Unknown author (2010-09)

  The presentation focuses on innovation systems and knowledge generation/knowledge ecology. Innovating out of poverty requires supportive mechanisms such as: Financial services facilitating linkages; Money transfer; Banking ...
• Innovation Strategies and the Role for Indicators 

  Gault, Fred (2010-09)

  The presentation focuses on innovation strategies in terms of South Africa’s goals for economic growth. Indicators can support monitoring, benchmarking, evaluation, foresight and research. The presentation provides a broad ...
• Challenges of Building Africa's Innovation Systems 

  Muchie, Mammo (2010-09)

  The presentation provides clarification of aspects of innovation systems as they apply in the African context. It describes characteristics of emergent innovation systems and innovation drivers and actors. Ideas about the ...
• Data gathering and developing and using innovation indicators 

  Kahn, Michael (2010-09)

  There are headline grabbing innovations such as cassette tape to CD to iPod. But it is the softer innovations that really matter: Clean water, Quality mass education, Safe and reliable mass transport systems, Clean and ...
• Role of design and engineering in African innovation systems-building 

  Bell, Martin (2010-09)

  Engineering overlaps with design, but extends towards the realisation of specifications into concrete realities along with various kinds of ‘project management.’ Innovation systems are seen as part of the purposeful and ...
• Development of an innovation strategy : experiences from Africa 

  Gault, Fred (2010-09)

  The presentation analyzes innovation strategies and how to build an innovation strategy in the context of African countries. An innovation strategy or policy is an intention of government to influence the activity of ...
• Innovation Insights from Projects in African Countries 

  Gault, Fred (2010-10)

  Implementation connects innovation to the market. The presentation focuses on user innovation in African countries, with several case studies: Innovation on farms; Telephone/mobile banking; User innovation in firms; ...
• Building African Capacity in Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators 

  Gault, Fred (2012-03)

  The aim was capacity building, with training of approximately 35 researchers, practitioners and junior- to mid-level policy makers in the use and application of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators. Four ...

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