Browsing The 6th Globelics International Conference by Issue Date
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Can innovation systems help solve the food crisis? Experiences with international agricultural research and policy
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Problems and perspectives in the construction of the knowledge Society in Latina American and the Caribbean
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The Agro-Food Sector in Catch-up Countries: A Comparative Study from Sectoral Systems Perspective
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Patterns of universities-firms interaction in Brazil in four industrial sectors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper investigates university-firms interactions in Brazil four industrial sectors. The sectors analyzed are: chemical and drugs, metal-mechanics, electro-electronics and wood and furniture. The investigation is ... -
The problem of financing innovation activity in Russia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The general aim of this paper is to identify the role and significance of the innovation activity as effective instruments of economic development and structural change. The role and significance of the scientific-and-te ... -
China's system and vision of innovation: analysis of the national medium- and long-term science and technology development plan (2006-2020)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)China has been characterised by extremely high rates of economic growth for the last several decades. This growth originates from a transformation of the institutional set up giving more room for regional initiative, private ... -
Politics of technology and economic development: Tracing the roots of the absence of NSI in the Philippines
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Sources of technological opportunity in Brazil
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper aims to assess the relevance of different sources of TO for Brazilian industries and to compare the results with those obtained in science-frontier countries. The paper uses micro level data from PINTEC (2003). ... -
Global systems of innovation: Water supply and sanitation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Innovation is a process of problem solving. In its broadest sense, innovation means doing things in new ways. When conditions change and routines no longer work, humans experiment and learn. In a narrower sense, innovation ... -
Innovation and Export Dynamics in the Argentine Soybean Production Chain: a Study in Micro-Macro Interactions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)It is difficult to find a field of macroeconomics in which experts can disregard Argentina. Researchers that focus on economic growth have compared Argentina with Japan or Australia, concluding that the former had experienced ... -
Cyclical Analysis of India’s Economic Growth: Is Service Sector Catching up?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper analyses the cyclical fluctuations of economic growth in India emphasizing upon the service sector for the period 1952 to 2006. Using Hodrick and Prescott (HP) Filter method, we estimate the trend components ... -
Assessing innovation networks in nanotechnology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Nanotechnology is regarded as the key technology for the 21st century, affecting almost every aspect of the economy. It has a great potential to stimulate various industries through the advancement of science and technology. ... -
Endogenous Competences and Linkages Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)In this paper we analyze empirically the influence of firms' endogenous competences in the existence, quality and results of the linkages between firms and different types of agents. Using survey data from 170 firms ... -
Learning, Leaving and Linking: Tapping the training, careers and networks of knowledge workers for developing countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The present paper, based on a survey analysis of 10,000 scientists and their collaborators explores research mobility and collaboration between developing countries and between developing countries and the north. We focus ... -
Brazil: From S&T to innovation policy? The evolution and the challenges facing Brazilian policies for science, technology and innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)High and rising levels of labor productivity are at the core of a nation’s development. The growth of the labor productivity of any people is a function of its ability to absorb, improve and create technologies. Although ... -
Science and technology and economic growth in South Africa: performance and prospects
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The main contribution to economic growth in South Africa prior to the early 1990s resulted from factor accumulation – principally capital, but also labour. Technological progress, as measured by total factor productivity ... -
Identification of policy problems in systems of innovation through diagnostic analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)‘Activities’ in innovation systems are the determinants of the development and diffusion of innovations. (Examples are R&D, provision of organizations and institutions, financing of innovations, incubation, etc.) These ... -
The State and Innovation Policy in Late Development: Evidence from South Africa and Malaysia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper analyses the main institutional mechanisms that foster the emergence and performance of firms in knowledge-intensive sectors in developing countries. We use the empirical data collected in 2005 and 2006 in the ... -
Redefining development goals: Science, Technology and Innovation, sustainable growth, improvement of income distribution and social welfare
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Between multinational companies and sectoral innovation systems: patterns in the organization of innovation in subsidiaries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This research investigates patterns in the organization of innovation in subsidiaries and the role of innovation projects in integrating knowledge between the multinational companies and technological partners in the host ...