Schmitz, Hubert | 1998
- Author(s): Schmitz, Hubert
- Publisher: University of Sussex. Institute of development studies
- Pages: --
- Keywords: industrial concentration, shoe industry, industrial subcontracting, industrial efficiency, innovations, globalization, international competition, rio grande do sul, brazil
The failure of a cluster of leather footwear industries in Brazil to address intensified global competition shows that the centrifugal forces of globalization make local co-operation increasingly difficult.
Scoones, Ian and Adwera, Andrew | 2009
- Author(s): Scoones, Ian and Adwera, Andrew
- Publisher: Institute of development studies (IDS). Future agricultures consortium (FAC)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: pastoralism, innovations, development strategies, water supply, animal diseases, range management, climatic change, east africa, ethiopia, kenya
In 2009, pastoralists from across southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya from a dozen ethnic groups gathered to debate key pastoral development issues from an innovation systems perspective.
Shambu Prasad, C. | 2006
- Author(s): Shambu Prasad, C.
- Publisher: WWF. Project 'Dialogue on water, food and environment' [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural innovations, rice, technology transfer, history, research centres, agricultural extension, india
The formal rice research establishment resisted the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India. SRI was developed in Madagascar and allows farmers to grow more rice with fewer inputs.
Shambu Prasad, C. and Hall, Andrew and Thummuru, Laxmi | 2006
- Author(s): Shambu Prasad, C. and Hall, Andrew and Thummuru, Laxmi
- Publisher: Institutional learning and change (ILAC)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural research, research centres, institution building, capacity building, innovations
The preparation of institutional histories can help a research organization become a learning organization in order to cope with changing mandates and become better at contributing to agricultural innovation.
Shi, Guanming and Pray, Carl | 2011
- Author(s): Shi, Guanming and Pray, Carl
- Publisher: University of Minnesota [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural innovations, development models, industrial policy, asia
The authors investigated how policy and market factors influence decisions on innovation, using pesticide innovation data from China. The results suggest that the government policies for openness, public research and education and intellectual property right enforcement can encourage innovation.