List of Paper Accepted for Presentation
003 A Significant Impact of Child Labor on Pakistan’s Economy - Adiqa Kausar Kiani 005 Using Balanced Scorecard as performance measurement system at private hospitals: making everybody happy, while taking care of the bottom line! - Ahmad Ezainuddin bin Badarudin; Zaini bin Abdullah 006 Households Profit Optimization and the Efficiency of Labour Contract Choice across Irrigation Technology - Aïfa Fatimata NDOYE NIANE; Kees BURGER; Erwin BULTE 008 Optimal Patent Protection for Pharmaceuticals - Alexis Habiyaremye; Geoffrey Gachino 009 The role of local innovative capabilities in resources based industrialization: Some policy implications for resource-rich developing countries - Ali Maleki 010 Leveraging oil and gas sector in industrialization and knowledge based economic development process: ‘Linkage’ approach to ‘dual track’ strategy in Algeria - Ali Maleki; Amar SiAbdelhadi 011 On the Determinants of Resource Allocation to R&D Exploring the Potential Role of Technology Spillovers - Ameth Saloum Ndiaye; Abdoulaye Seck 012 Learning through Informal Interaction: Study of a Coir Cluster in Kerala, India - Anant Kamath 013 French Regional Innovation Systems: Evidence for the Center Region - Angela OLOSUTEAN MITREA 014 Systemic policy instruments and their role in addressing sustainability challenges - Anna J. Wieczorek; Marko Hekkert; Ruud Smits
016 Rethinking the Colonial Legacy in the Legal Reasoning of the Contemporary Africa State: An Argument from African Metaphysical Epistemology - BADRU Ronald Olufemi 018 Production Efficiency of Firms under Mergers and Acquisitions: The Indian Experience - Beena S 019 Intra-National Digital Divide in India: An Analysis on the Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies across States - Bibhunandini Das 020 The making of the Tanzanian Science, Technology and Innovation System: Past, Present and Proposed Future Direction - Bitrina Diyamett; Astrid Szogs; Hezron Makundi 021 Funding research-for-development: Insights on how organizations evolve grant-making strategy - Bruce Currie-Alder
022 Towards the End of the Beginning Looking Forward: Fifteen Years After the Introduction of the TRIPs Agreement - Burcu Kilic 023 Asian Governments, National Innovation Strategies and the Promotion of Digital Media - Carin Holroyd 024 Brazilian Health Biotechnology System: an essay about the firm’s selection process - Carlos Bianchi 025 Economic Implications of Extreme Events in Orissa, India: An Analysis of Trend since 1970s - Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati 026 The Evolution and Pathways for Development: Science and Technology of NIEs and Selected Asian Emerging Countries - Chan-Yuan Wong; Kim-Leng Goh 027 Knowledge Creation Process in Innovation Intermediate Business - Chia-Han Yang; John R.T. Chiou; Joseph Z. Shyu 028 The Determinants of Price in Online Auctions: More Evidence from Quantile Regression - Chia-Hung Sun; Ming-Fei Hsu 030 Openness, Absorptive Capacity and Regional Innovation in China - Chih-Hai Yang; Hui-Lin Lin 031 Sustainability transitions in global technological innovation systems – A multi-scalar, relational analysis of water recycling technology - Christian Binza; Bernhard Truffer 032 Brain concentration by high technology clusters and North-South scientific cooperation: a way to co-development? The case of Mexico-Europe nanotechnologists' networks - Claire POLO 033 Interrupted Innovation: Innovation system dynamics in latecomer aerospace industries - Daniel Vertesy; Adam Szirmai 034 South African Mining Equipment – Technological Capacity and Export Performance - David Kaplan 035 The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration: Evidence from a Developing country - Diego Ubfal; Alessandro Maffioli 036 Globalization of the Indian pharmaceutical industry: Implications for the direction, distribution and diversity in drug innovation - Dinesh Abrol; Pramod Prajapati; Nidhi Singh 037 Where do we stand with financial innovations in Sub- Saharan countries? The case of Côte D’Ivoire - Edith L. TOGBA 038 The Brazilian pharmaceutical industry: a co-evolution process between technology, institutions and industrial organizations Eduardo Urias 039 The more open, the more innovative? Examining the impact of networking and external knowledge sourcing on firm-level innovation performance in Nigeria - Egbetokun, A. A. 040 Micro Evidence on Innovation in Developing Economies: a baseline innovation survey of the manufacturing industry in Nigeria - Egbetokun, A. A., Siyanbola, W. O.; Olamade, O. O. 041 Making your own future. Expectations and occupation choice - Ezequiel Tacsir 043 University Research capacity in Nigeria and the challenges of National Development in a knowledge-based Economy - Fadokun James Banji 044 Foreign Source of Technology on the Dynamics of Technological Capabilities - Fang Wang 046 The Challenges of Measuring Innovation in Emerging General Purpose Technologies: The Case of Nanotechnology - Flávio J. M. Peixoto 047 Knowledge complementarities, connectivity, and innovation strategies in Argentinian industrial firms - Florencia Barletta; Luciano Cohan; Verónica Robert; Gabriel Yoguel 048 Sustainability experiments in Asia: ‘green’ innovations shaping alternative development pathways? - Frans Berkhout; Geert Verbongb; Anna J. Wieczoreka; Rob Ravenb 049 Benefiting from academy-industry interaction: the perception of firms and researchers in Mexico - Gabriela Dutrénit; Claudia De Fuentes; Arturo Torres 051 Patent Analysis: indicators, techniques and applications - Gerardo Luís Angulo Cuentas; Jaime Alberto Camacho Pico; Maryuris Charris Polo 052 Network Economies for Open Source Technologies (OST) - Hans Gottinger 054 Choice of Independent R&D and Open Innovation: Empirical Analysis Based on Questionnaire Data for Firms - Hiromi Saito 055 Complementarity between internal knowledge creation and external knowledge sourcing: evidence from Chinese manufacturing - Jun Hou; Pierre Mohnen 056 Patterns of Human Capital Development in Russia: Meeting the Challenge of Market Reforms and Globalization - Irina Soboleva 057 Internationalization and Technology in Mercosur - Isabel Álvarez; Bruno B. Fischer; José Miguel Natera 059 Toward a Practice-Based Framework of Technology Acceptance: A Case Study on Bioactive Point of Care Testing - Ismo Alakärppä; Anu Valtonen 060 The development of aerospace clusters in Mexico - Javier Martínez Romero 061 Science, technology and MDGs: The role of linking, leveraging and learning - Jebamalai Vinanchiarachi 062 Management of the Innovation Process of a Small Amazonian Company in the Food Sector - Joésia Moreira Julião Pacheco; João Bosco Lissandro Reis Botelho; Andreza do Souza Silva; André Luiz Nunes Zogahib 063 Explaining the Characteristics and Efficiency of Manufacturing Firms in Lagos - John O. Adeoti 064 Technological Capability, Innovation Capability and Agro-Industry Development in Nigeria - John O. Adeoti; Adetola I. Adeoti 065 How Does Information Technology Enable Innovation in Supply Chains? - John Qi Dong 066 Micro to Macro Interactions in the Context of Argentine Manufacturing Activities - Jorge KATZ; Gonzalo BERNAT 067 Breaking inertia and implementing Innovation policy for development - Jorge Niosi 068 Agrocom: Agriculture knowledge poverty alleviation through innovative mobile sms intervention - Kasina V. Rao; Krithi Ramamritham; R. M. Sonar 069 Management of Offshore R&D in China: Motivations and Cross Country Differences - Kazuyuki Motohashi 070 Information Services and Innovation for Manufacturing Industries’ Performance in Tanzania - Kelefa Mwantimwa 071 Democratic Institutions and Environment Quality : Effect and Transmission Channels - KINDA Somlanare Romuald 072 Accessibility of health services in West Africa: the case of Ivory Coast - Koudou Zohore Olivier; Guei Sosthene Auguste Gregoire 073 Learning through the International Joint Venture: Lessons from the Experience of China’s Automotive Sector - Kyung-Min NAM 075 Innovation as a latent variable: an alternative measurement approach - Luísa Ferreira Lopes 076 Technology, Trade and Skills in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata - Bruno Cesar Araújo; Francesco Bogliacino; Marco Vivarelli 077 The Food Processing Sector in Argentina, Brazil and Chile: A Sectoral System of Innovation Approach - Maria Alejandra Molina 078 The expansion of Finnish innovation policy through discursive practices - Marja-Liisa Niinikoski 079 Why the Low Scientific Productivity? Workforce Perception in a Colombian University - Martinez. H 080 New Technologies in Remittances Sending: Opportunities for Mobile Remittances in Africa - Melissa Siegel; Sonja Fransen 081 Vaccine-preventable Diseases: an Examination of Measles and Polio in Nigeria - Michael O.S Afolabi; Ikeoluwa O. Okerin 082 Applying IT based innovations as a competitive advantage in managing the projects - Mohammad Eghbali Teimouri 083 SIS and Diamond: A comparison - Mohammad Pakneiat; Monireh Panahi 085 Different competences, different modes in the globalization of innovation? A comparative study of the Pune and Beijing regions - Monica Plecheroa; Cristina Chaminade 086 How is Absorptive Capacity Formed in Korea? From Foreign Technology Acquisition to Indigenous R&D - Moon Young Chung; Keun Lee 087 Does Financial System matters for Technological Catching-Up? An empirical analysis of the wealth of nations - Muhammad Nadeem Javaid 088 Bounds Test Approach to Cointegration and Impact of Financial Development on Energy Consumption for Pakistan - Muhammad Shahbaz 089 A Spiral Process Model of Technological Innovation Capabilities in a Developing Country: The Case of Samsung - Murad Ali; Aleem Muhammad; Kichan Park 090 Networking and Women Entrepreneurs: Beyond Patriarchal Traditions - H. Mushtaq Ahmad; Shazia Naimat
091 Trade Preferences, Economies of Scale and Dynamics Productivity Upgrading in African Manufacturing Firms: The Production Technology-Institutional Context Nexus - Abdelrasaq Na-Allah; Mammo Muchie
094 Innovation Strategy and Firm Survival: The Case of Hong Kong-Owned Manufacturing in Guangdong Province, China - Naubahar Sharif; Can Huang 095 A growth model for international education in developing countries - Nguyen, H.; Ma’ruf; Stoffers, J. 096 Distributed leadership in Communities of Practice (CoPs); the case of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) - Nima FALLAH 097 Belarus in the Context of Innovation Indicators of the European Innovation Scoreboard - Bohdan N. I. 098 Effect of Human Capital on Labor Productivity in Sub Sahara African Manufacturing Firms - Niringiye Aggrey 099 Patenting and its Effect on Research Capacity and Utilization - Njoku Ola Ama; Charles Manga Fombad 100 State Financial Contribution to the Fight Againt Onchocerciasis in Cameroon - Njoumemi Zakariaou; Marcelline Ntep; Boniface Ngah Epo 102 Distributed Generation: An Alternative Paradigm for Electrification in West Africa - Ogundiran Soumonni 103 Searching for Environmental Kuznets Curves of Some Basics in Africa - Omotor, D.G.; Orubu, C.O. 104 Proposed Sets of Supplementary Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators for latecomer Economies at the Firm and Country Levels - Patarapong Intarakumnerd 106 Application of Nanotechnology in Food Industry - Phoon Lee Ying; Che Wan Jasimah Wan Mohamed Radzi 107 An Economic Analysis of Demand for Engineering Education in Delhi - Pradeep Kumar Choudhury 108 Impact of Price Instability on Unemployment and Economic Growth in Pakistan: An Econometric Approach - Qazi Abdul Subhan; Mahr Asif Hayat 109 Attracting and embedding the R&D of multinational enterprises in peripheral economies: the case of the EU new member states - Rajneesh Narula; José Guimón 110 Recent Developments in Indian and Chinese Intellectual Property Laws and investment policies in WTO regime: A comparative analysis of the efficiency to attract foreign investment - Rakhi Rashmi 111 Schumacher meets Schumpeter: Appropriate Technology Below the Radar - Raphael Kaplinsky 112 What Happens When the Market Shifts to China? The Gabon Timber and Thai Cassava Value Chains - Raphael Kaplinsky; Anne Terheggen; Julia Tijaja 114 Technological Discontinuity and Industrial Catch-up: A Study on the Chinese Flat Panel Display Industry - Rho, Sungho; Lee, Keun 116 The impact of digital technology on publishing business models: Revisiting the strategic paradigm - Rojers P Joseph 117 Organisational, Structural, Individual and Contextual Characteristics that can predict the adoption of Technology by a private for-profit hospital: A case of private for-profit hospitals in Kerala - Rony Thomas Rajan 119 The role of institutions and firm characteristics in the networks of firm publications. An analysis of the Italian biotech sector through the Social Network Analysis - Rosamaria D’Amore; Roberto Iorio; Agnieszka Stawinoga
120 Estimating urban agglomeration economies for India: a new economic geography perspective - Sabyasachi Tripathi
121 Health Shocks and the Urban Poor: A Case Study of Slums in Delhi - Samik Chowdhury 122 The Willingness to Pay for Mobile Telephony Services Among Low Income Households in Six Countries of Asia - Sangamitra Ramachander 125 Input Additionality of R&D and Innovation Subsidies: Empirical Evidence from Community Innovation Survey in Turkey - Sinan Tandoğan; Alp Eren Yurtseven 127 Benchmarking Innovation Leaders - Smirnova Yelena Valerievna 128 Technology Strategies under Globalisation: An Exploration of Indian Manufacturing Firms - Sravanthi Choragudi 129 Limited Catch-up in China’s Semiconductor Industry: A Sectoral Innovation System Perspective - Sungho Rho; Keun Lee; Seong Hee Kim 130 The flight from defence to civilian space: Evolution of the sectoral system of innovation of India’s Aerospace Industry - Sunil Mani 132 Exploring Mechanisms for Putting Agriculture Value Chain Oriented Research into Use: Empirical Cases from the Research Into Use (RIU) Program - Vamsidhar Reddy TS ; Rasheed Sulaiman; Andy Hall 133 India’s Export Sophistication in a Comparative Perspective - C. Veeramani; Gordhan K. Saini 134 Does the institution of State Business Relations matter for Firm Performance? – A study of Indian Manufacturing - Vinish Kathuria; Rajesh Raj S. N. 135 What Fiscal Policy for a Sustainable Management of Forest Resource in Côte d'Ivoire? - DJEZOU Wadjamsse Beaudelaire 136 The formation process towards a more inclusive system: Comparison study on Suzhou and WenZhou - Xiaobo Wu; Yanbin Jiang 137 Intellectual Property Protection in Cluster: An exploration research - Xiaolei KONG 138 Entrepreneurship Development and the Role of Economic Transition in Entrepreneurial Activities in China - Ying Zhang 139 The Reconstruction of Innovation System for Inclusive Development – Evidence from China - Yilin FAN; Xiaobo WU 140 Technology diffusion and knowledge flow: Lessons from local and global interaction within Indonesian consumer electronics sector - Yohanes Kadarusman 141 Justice in Uncertainty: The Case of Bio-fuel Development in Indonesia - Yuti Ariani Fatimah 143 Entrepreneurs Synergy, Innovation and Formation of Industrial Clusters: A Case Study from Shanxiahu, China - Zuhui Huang; Feng Wang; Chunhui Ye; Meng Liang 144 Industrial Dynamics and the evolution of Malaysian SME's competitive capabilities in the world market - A value chain approach focusing on the food processing sector - Zurina Othman; Koen Vandenbempt; Erik Hendrickx 145 Private-state partnership in the innovations sphere (Republic of Belarus) - E.F. Kireyeva 146 Multi-risk Model of Small-Scale Agricultural Enterpreneurs in Central Part of Nigeria - Ayinde, O. E.; Mammo M.; Omotesho, O. A.; Adewumi, M. O 147 Analyzing the evidence of a IPR take-off in China and India - Manuel Mira Godinho; Vítor Ferreira 148 Does Technological Linkage in Contract Farming Increase the Farm Productivity and Efficiency? A Study of Rice Seed Cultivation in Southern India - Braja Bandhu Swain 149 Regional labour mobility, localised knowledge and firm-level innovation in China’s Zhongguancun Science Park - Matias Ramires; XiBao Li; WeiFeng Chen 150 Bridging access to electricity and BOP market: the paradoxical frontiers of consumption and aid to the poorest populations - Céline CHOLEZ; Pascale TROMPETTE; Dominique VINCK; Thomas REVERDY 151 Competence-Building in Foreign Subsidiaries - Sergey Filippov 153 Merits of the Carnegie Basic Classification for Benchmarking the Performance of Universities in the South - Sujata Gamage; Il-haam Petersen 154 The Impact of Climate Change on the Glaciers, Water Resources and Livelihood of Pakistan - Mariya Absar 155 A Decomposition of Vertical- and Horizontal-based Trade in Presence of Production Networks in Malaysia - Noor Aini Khalifah; Zakiah Jaafar 158 Innovation or Adaptation? Exploring R&D Strategies and Innovation Outcomes of German Multinational Enterprises in China - Juliane Bielinski 159 Learning and Innovation in Upstream-Downstream Relations: Mutual Knowledge Exchanges and Types of Transferred Technologies - Tomohiro Machikita; Yasushi Ueki 160 Bridging researchers and the openness of wine innovation systems in Chile and South Africa - Elisa Giuliani; Roberta Rabellotti 161 Quality of interactions between universities, public research organizations and firms: lessons from the Costa Rican case - Jeffrey Orozco; Keynor Ruiz 162 Beyond the Economics of the Brain Drain - Carolina Cañibano: Richard Woolley 165 The World’s Factory on Informal Ties: Organisation of Firm Networks in the Electronics Industry in the Greater Pearl River Delta (China) - Susanne Meyer 166 Comparative Analysis of National Innovation Systems in MERCOSUR - Diana Suárez; Jesica De Angelis 168 Catching-up or Leapfrogging in Indian IT service Sector: Windows of Opportunity, Path-creating and Moving up the Value-chain in TCS, Infosys, and Wipro - Keun Lee; Tae Young Park 169 A framework to analyse the formation of open innovation systems - DANTAS, Eva; BODAS FREITAS, Isabel Maria 170 The global institutional frameworks and the diffusion of renewable energy technologies in the BRICS countries - BODAS FREITAS, Isabel Maria; DANTAS, Eva; IIZUKA, Michiko 171 Intellectual property rights and other institutional matters influencing medicines accessibility in Thailand - Samira Guennif 172 Agglomeration economies in semi-industrialized countries: Some evidence from Argentina and some general inferences about research and policy in similar countries - José A. Borello; Hernán Morhorlang; Diego Silva Failde
174 Meet me after the TRIPs. Do IPRs Reinforcement Facilitate International Technological Cooperation? - Fabio Montobbio; Annalisa Primi; Valerio Sterzi
173 Making methodological decisions in cross-country, cross-industry research: Articulating the assumptions underlying indicators - Helena Barnard; Tashmia Ismail
176 S&T and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Econometric Model based on International Panel Data - Ricardo Arechavala-Vargas; Alejandro Alarcón-Ozuna; Luis F. Ocampo-Figueroa 177 Panel Study: Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer: A Case of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - Ghulam Samad 178 Social Networks and Innovation (Handicraft Industry in Bantul, Yogyakarta) - Aloysius Gunadi BRATA 179 Medical Imaging Innovative Features and Their Implications on Radiology Work Practices: Evidence from Malaysian Hospitals - Rohaya Mohd-Nor 180 The innovation system in the electronics sector in South Africa - Shawn Cunningham 184 Trade Liberalisation, Technical Change and Firm Level Restructuring in the South African Automotive Component Sector - Anthony Black 185 Major Determinants and Hindrances of FDI inflow in Bangladesh: Perceptions and Experiences of Foreign Investors and Policy Makers - Shamima Nasrin; Angathevar Baskaran; Mammo Muchie 186 The economics of open sourcing: A new type of interactive learning within national innovation systems - Bettina Burger-Menzel; Sara Assadi 188 Export Variety and the Catching Up of Countries - Pier-Paolo Saviotti; Lionel Nesta; Muhammad Nadeem Javaid 189 On India's plunge into Nanotechnology: What are good ways to catch-up? - Shyama Ramani; Nupur Chowdhury; Roger Coronini; Susan Reid
191 A three-stage model of the Academy-Industry linking process: the perspective of both agents - Claudia De Fuentes; Gabriela Dutrénit 192 Stay factors in the industrial transfer of cluster: a case study of children wear cluster of Zhili, Zhejiang, China - Huang Zuhui; Ye Jifei; Song Yu 193 Effects of Inclusive Public Agricultural Extension Service: Results from a Policy Reform Experiment in Western China - Ruifa Hu; Yaqing Cai; Keven Chen; Jihun Huang 194 The Technology Accumulation and International Division of Labour Among China, Taiwan and Japan - Taiwanese automobile parts and die & mould industries in China- - Yuri Sadoi 195 Leveraging Knowledge for Development in an Australian/Southeast Asian Neighbourhood - Tim Turpin; Richard Woolley 196 Securing Access to Patented Knowledge in Biotechnology: Can Patent Pooling Offer a Solution for India? - Nitya Nanda; Indrani Barpujari; Nidhi Srivastava 197 Intermediaries and Capability Building: Evidence from an emerging natural resource cluster - Ian Clarke; Matias Ramirez 198 Catching up in different sectoral systems: evidence from six industries - F. Malerba; R. Nelson 199 Are Systems of Innovation in Eastern Europe Efficient? - Victoria Kravtsova; Slavo Radosevic 200 The problem of missing data in cross-country analyses of national systems and development: A new multiple imputation method and a new set of composite indicators (CANA) - Fulvio Castellacci; José Miguel Natera 201 Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Grassroots: Beyond Microfinance - Lina Sönne 204 Cognition, Learning and Capability building: a trilogy of Chinese indigenous telecom-equipment industry - Kaidong Feng; Feng Lu 205 Advanced Technological Capabilities in the Largest Emerging Countries: An Analysis of Domestive and Foreign Organizations Patenting at the USPTO and EPO - Franco Malerba; Fabio Montobbio; Valerio Sterzi 206 Leveraging Social and Environmental Responsibility Through the Changing Role of Government: The Relational State Perspective - Sabrina Chong Yee Ching 207 Knowledge, Capabilities and the Poverty Trap: The complex interplay between technological, social and geographical factors - Jan Fagerberg; Martin Srholec
208 The national innovation system in India and its globalization - Balaji Parthasarathy; V Ranganathan
209 A Contribution to the Criteria for Organizational Design for Innovation in Consolidated Companies from Mature Sectors – The case of Brazilian Petrochemical Industry - Adriana Marotti de Mello 210 Strategic Learning and Leveraging of Foreign Technology by Entrepreneurial Firms in the Technological Development Process – Case Studies from the Sri Lankan Garment Accessories Industry - Dilupa Nakandala 212 Determinants of PRO-industry interactions in latecomer pharmaceutical R&D: the case of Mexico - Fernando Santiago Rodriguez; Gabriela Dutrenit 213 Benchmarking Malaysia’s Innovation Capacity - Hamri Tuah; Devendran Nadaraja; Zakiah Jaafar 214 Global Recession and the National System of Innovation in China: ‘A Blessing in Disguise’? - Ju Liu; Angathevar Baskaran; Mammo Muchie 216 Innovation in sustainability technologies in newly industrializing countries – results from a case study on wind energy - Rainer Walz; Jonathan Nowak Delgado 217 Eco-innovation in the Globalizing Learning Economy: The Greening of National Innovation Systems - Maj Munch Andersen 218 Beyond Tragedy of Commons - Sustainability of natural resource based industry: case of Chilean salmon - Michiko Iizuka; Jorge Katz 219 Co-volution of Zhuji Pearl Industry Cluster and Specialized Market - Huang Zuhui; Sun Huaping 220 Financing Social Innovation: The Case of Micro Financing of BRAC’s CFPR Programme in Bangladesh - Ismat Mahmuda; Angathevar Baskaran; Jatin Pancholi 221 An Uneasy Coexistence: The New and the Old in India's Industry and Services - Jayan Jose Thomas 223 Sources of innovation and technological capability development in the Indian Automobile industry - Dinar Kale 224 Trade and R&D Externalities: Impact on the Cost of Production of the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector - Sofiane Ghali; Zouhour KARRAY 225 Building capacity through innovation for integrated health solutions in developing countries - Rebecca Hanlin 226 Building Capacities of Women in Habitat Services – Challenging Tradition, Driving Innovation- Cases from India - Vrinda Chopra 227 Coordination of innovation policy in the catching-up context: Estonia and Brazil compared - Erkki Karo; Rainer Kattel 228 Innovation and Technological Catch Up : some results and open questions for developing countries - Xavier GALIEGUE; Angela OLOSUTEAN 229 International Competitive Strategy Choice and Its Determinants: A Comparative Study between Firms in China and India - Ping Lv 230 Enabling Poverty Relevance of Azospirillum Bio-Innovation: Lessons from Eco-enterprises in Tamil Nadu, India - Sunita Sangar; Wafa Singh 232 Technology Business Incubators in China and in India: A comparative analysis - Mingfeng TANG; Angathevar BASKARAN; Jatin PANCHOLI 233 Technological evolution in the South African and Argentine automotive manufacturing sectors: policy responses and results - Michael Gastrow; Ariel Gordon 234 The Role of Three Missions of Universities: A Synthesis of Findings from an International Research Project - Claes Brundenius; Bo Göransson 235 The contributions of quality infrastructure to national innovation systems: Implications for development policy - Jorge Gonçalves; Jan Peuckert 236 Constitutional foundations of medical aid regulation: issues and trends - S.S. Zhukov 237 Influence of National Innovation System on Peculiarities of Small Innovative Business Development - Sophia Khalimova 238 Shaping of the knowledge networks by country bases and knowledge bases: Patent citation network analysis of hydrogen energy and nano sectors in six developed countries - Choi, Hyundo; Park, Sangook 239 International alliances and technology diffusion: An analysis of the global tire industry - Sorin M.S. Krammer 240 International Integration and Mandates of Innovative Overseas Subsidiaries in Spain - Isabel ALVAREZ; John CANTWELL 241 FDI and technology as levering factors of competitiveness in developing countries - Isabel ALVAREZ; Raquel MARIN 242 Tertiary Education and Innovation: An OLG Model Analysis for Malaysia - Hamri Tuah; Devendran Nadaraja; Maryam Wong 243 The possibility of natural resource-based development and the inadequacy of development theory - Allan Dahl Andersen; Björn Johnson 244 Innovation and Research policies in the Mediterranean Area: toward a Mediterranean System of Innovation - Massimiliano FERRARA; Roberto MAVILIA 246 Firm innovation activity and financial performance improvement in the fish processing and export sector in Uganda - Timothy Esemu; Eric Wood 247 Institutional design and Occupational ‘opportunity’: The case of shifting cultivators in Nagaland - Abhinandan Saikia; Saradindu Bhaduri
249 Coevolutionary processes and economic development: stylising evidence coming from Mexico and Israel - Martín Puchet Anyul; Gabriela Dutrénit; Morris Teubal 250 Global health social technologies: reflections on evolving theories and landscapes - Joanna Chataway; Rebecca Hanlin; Julius Mugwagwa; Lois Muraguri 251 To What Extent Can Research Exemption Promote Innovation? - Désiré LOUMOU 252 Discovery of the flower industry in Ethiopia: experimentation and coordination - Mulu Gebreeyesus; Michiko Iizuka 253 Learning by doing and learning through interaction in the Clean Development Mechanism projects - Asel Doranova 254 Outdoor bathing in Iceland. The social aspects of energy utilization - Örn D. Jónsson 255 Intellectual Property Governance in ICT Firms: Exploring the Organization of Value Creation in Proprietary and Non-proprietary Marketplaces - Birgitte Andersen; Ainurul Rosli; Federica Rossi; Waraporn Yangsap 257 Innovation Transfer Strategies in the Innovation Systems - Nina Kazakova; Yuri Dulepin 258 Food on the Table and Disease at the Door: Insights from Low-income Countries and Regions for Measuring Innovation - Jo Lorentzen 259 Rural Sustainability Issues in Developing Economies: A Case Study of SAGAR Island, India - Prokash C. Roy; Niladri Chakraborty; Suchandra Bardhan 260 Channels and platforms for innovation and competence building: An emergent research agenda of trans-national innovation systems - Mika Kautonen; Mika Raunio 261 Research Innovation Policies for Social Inclusion: Is there an Emerging Pattern - Rodrigo Arocena; Judith Sutz 263 Urban Water Innovation Systems in Newly Industrializing Countries: Brazil, China, India, and South Africa - Jan Peuckert 264 The Health Economic Industrial Complex in Brazil: modes of coordination and implications for NIS in the health area - Carlos Augusto G. Gadelha; Marco Antonio Vargas; José Maldonado; Pedro Barbosa
265 Intellectual Property rights, Migration, and Diaspora - Alireza Naghavi; Chiara Strozzi
267 Open Innovation of Small and Medium Firms – Case Studies from South Korea - Jin Hyo Joseph Yun; Seung-Ku Ahn; Avvari Mohan 268 A Study on the Difference of Open Innovation Effect according to Technology Life Cycle Jin Hyo Joseph Yun; Avvari Mohan 269 Venture Capital and Innovation - Nani Abdul Rahman; Adriana Nordin Manan; Erhanfadli Azrai; Puvaneswaran Sanjivee
270 Business models in health innovation in Africa: The case of an African research institute - Ken Simiyu
271 Networking and Interactive Learning Capabilities as keys to Innovative Performance in Rural Economic Initiatives in El Salvador - Andrew Roberts Cummings
