Browsing The 6th Globelics International Conference by Issue Date
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Assessing the role of international agricultural research in poverty alleviation from an innovation systems perspective
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The role of agriculture in development and poverty alleviation, including that of agricultural research, has been reevaluated in recent years (World Bank 2007). The discussion, however, has not yet fully addressed how ... -
Innovation system in the Brazilian sugarcane agroindustry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Ethanol has been recently of great interest worldwide due to two main reasons. First, it is a viable alternative to oil products, used in light vehicles, which price has been substantially raised in the last years. In ... -
The patenting of genetic resources and the privatization of strategic public goods
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Since the recognition of the sovereign rights of countries over their genetic resources by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1993), developing countries rich in biodiversity have become more aware of the potential ... -
Knowledge, research and innovation systems and developing countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)In the first part of this paper, we offer a general approach to national research systems, or better (as we will argue), knowledge, research and innovation systems (KRIS). In the second part, we argue that developing ... -
An Investigation on the Contribution of Universities and Research Institutes for Maturing the Brazilian Innovation System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The positive feedbacks between science and technology are decisive features of mature innovation systems (Cohen et al, 2002). The literature on National Systems of Innovation (NSI) and on recent successful catch up ... -
An investigation on the contribution of universities and research institutes for maturing the Brazilian innovation system
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Changing contexts of higher education policy: toward a new role of universities in Indonesia’s innovation system
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)With the collapse of the 32-year ruling centralistic regime in the middle of 1998, decentralization became a buzzword within the public policy discourse thereafter. In particular, the higher education sector has been ... -
Biofuels production in Mexico a complex problem
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)In Mexico the possibility of producing biofuels has generated a wide range of political, economical and technical comments and opinions. This is due mainly to the fact that the oil industry has contributed heavily to the ... -
University, innovation and society: Cuban higher education in the national system of innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)In this document we state that Cuban higher education exerts a prominent role in the national innovation system. It provides a high level education and trains the university graduates and most of the postgraduate training ... -
The potential for biofuel production and use in Africa: an adaptive management approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Biofuels are projected to play an increasingly important role in the gamut of sustainable energy options for the future. As countries such as the U.S.(corn ethanol), Brazil (sugarcane ethanol), Indonesia (oil palm ethanol), ... -
Primary education-current scenario in India
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper tries to review the attainment towards Millennium Development Goal (MDG) - to achieve universalisation of primary education at the global level in general and that of India in particular. It tries to analyze the ... -
Innovation, technological capability and competitiveness: catching-up policy issues in evolutionary perspective: From low-level equilibrium traps to sustainable, innovation-based, competitive advantages
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Effective competence building policies rely on the evolving interaction between business innovation, knowledge systems and policy learning. In conjunction, they amount to a collective enterprise within which the mastering ... -
Some reasons for innovative duality among Argentine productive sectors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The objective of this paper is to study and try to understand the main causes that determine innovative duality in the Argentine tradable sector with a radically different approach. First, it will not employ econometrics ... -
Structural Change and the Growth of Industrial Sectors: Empirical Test of a GPT model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper investigates the empirical elevance of a model of structural change and the growth of industrial sectors. The model analyses the process of diffusion of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) and how this affects ... -
Beyond the emission market: Kyoto and the international expansion of waste management firms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper analyses the participation of firms without GHG emission liabilities as technology providers in CDM and JI projects, the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. It argues that the motivations for those ... -
Comparison of patterns in knowledge diffusion from the US to South East Asia (Korea and Taiwan) and Latin America (Brazil and Mexico), 1976-2002
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The aim of this paper is to compare the patterns in diffusion of knowledge from the US to South East Asia (Korea and Taiwan) and Latin America (Brazil and Mexico) and to explore the nature of technological flows between ... -
Forms of Social Democracy and the relationship between Political Economy & Innovation Policy
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Improving the contribution of Public Research Centres to the innovation system: Challenges and transformations
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Accelerating the formation of regional systems of innovation in Mexico? Understanding the effects of the Technology Business Accelerator Program in the formation of resources and capabilities to innovate in Mexican regions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)My doctoral dissertation research project uses the case of the Mexico’s Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA) program in order to advance our understanding of whether a business acceleration program can enhance the ...