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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Systems of Innovation"”.
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Aquaculture and rural livelihoods in the Bolivian Amazon - Systems of Innovation and pro-poor technology development
This thesis is about pro-poor agricultural innovations and smallholder development in Amazonia. The focus is on aquaculture in the Bolivian Amazon, with particular reference to indigenous territories. An Innovation Systems framework is used to analyse aquaculture Research and Development at a …
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INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING IN ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN INNOVATION SYSTEMS APPROACH
… and social progress is the ultimate objective of economics. Economic growth has not happened simultaneously and evenly in all countries. Rather, it is characterized by “a secular increase in the variance in per capita income” (Dosi et al. 1994: 10) across countries, with some countries forging …
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Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME
… contribute significantly to the economic growth of a nation, yet most of the research on innovation management in manufacturing industries has been focused on big firms. The current study identifies factors in SMME’s that are common between the external and internal systems of innovation that …
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Science, Engineering and Technology Research Funding Policy in Ireland 1995-2008: A Policy Document Analysis
… 1995 to 2008 there has been an increased level of government funding for research and development in higher education institutions in Ireland. This thesis analyses the evolving theoretical literature on the production of knowledge, and traces how models of research and innovation have evolved in …
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Innovation management in healthcare
Innovation in healthcare is a central way of coping with the changes affecting the healthcare system through the megatrends of demographic change, digitalization as well as the opportunities in the life-sciences sector and the “-omics” subjects. Due to the multiple facets of the topic, research on …
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Clusters and cluster initiatives: The role of collaboration and social capital in building a system of innovation in Ireland.
… enterprise policy focused on the development of competitive advantage in clusters of interlinked sectors (Doyle and Fanning 2007, Culliton 1992). Research in the early 1990s, found a weak system of innovation in Ireland and advocated a focus on broad institutional factors and the potential of …
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Exploring the impact of life science intermediaries on knowledge exchange and commercialisation: using a constructivist grounded theory methodology
… knowledge exchange and commercialisation. Many of the life science intermediaries (LSIs) that operate to bridge the divide between industry and academia receive public funding, and many have come and gone. It is important for us to better understand the reasons behind this turnover and how we …
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An investigation into the determinants of innovation in the New Zealand biotechnology sector
… and empirical knowledge from four strands of the innovation literature and then uses this knowledge to develop a framework for analysing the determinants of innovation. The framework is tested on one part of the New Zealand economy - the biotechnology sector - an area of rapid technological …
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University-Industry-Government Interaction: Drivers for Innovation in Nigeria
… (UIG) collaboration as a potential driver for innovation in Nigeria. While Nelson and Rosenberg (1993), Freeman and Soete (1997) and Lundvall (1998) acknowledge the roles of innovation in economic development, Wallin et al. (2014) and Ankrah and Omar (2015) note that …
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Capacidad de innovación y desarrollo tecnológico de las empresas industriales andaluzas: una identificación de los condicionantes de la innovación
Adopting the analytical framework of systems of innovation, the general objective of this Thesis is to identify those factors, the external and internal conditioners, that may either encourage or restrict companies in Andalusia in undertaking innovative activities.After first reviewing the …
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University-industry relationship: From the perspective of small firms
… relationships from the perspective of small firms. Traditionally university-industry relationships research features large firms rather than small firms, which leaves the strategies applied by small firms to establish and develop relationships with universities poorly understood. …
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DIVERSIFYING SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION CAPABILITY BUILDING, AND CATCH UP
This dissertation consists of three essays examining the role of connectivity in the catch-up process of a nation primarily focusing on East Asian countries. Specifically, I investigate the sourcing of knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, on local innovation capability building and thus catch-up …
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The Case to Innovate: understanding organisational innovativeness in one NHS Trust
Innovation in United Kingdom (UK) healthcare has in the last decade been driven forward through national policy and the development of a national innovation infrastructure, underpinned by an imperative to change. An increasing number of National Health Service (NHS) provider units, the NHS trusts, …
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Essays on the role of internationalization on the R&D activities
Firms of European small open peripheral economies face an increasing globalization of markets, a strengthening of global value chains, a well documented knowledge and technological gap and these in conjunction to the current crisis at least in the southern part of Europe. These conditions compose a …