Conceptual framework of agricultural innovation policy in African countries

Promoting Innovation in Developing Countries: a Conceptual Framework

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Agricultural Policy Choices in Developing Countries

The document contains ongoing work on an OECD project that examines the role of agricultural policies in raising incomes and reducing poverty in developing countries. A key focus is on ways in which the policy recommendations that the OECD has developed for its member countries might need to be qualified in the case of lower income developing countries. The paper is divided into two parts: Part...

Diagnosing the Implementation of Health Tourism Policy in Iran: a Conceptual Framework

Background: Globalization of health services has led to the emergence of a new segment of tourism called Health Tourism. The link between the health and tourism industry due to the benefits of trading, economics and the development of health systems in many countries, is considered as one of the priorities in health and tourism development. But making this link and development of health tourism...

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

Pursuing a biotechnology system of innovation in Lithuania: a conceptual framework for effective policy intervention

The focus of this paper is on Lithuania, whose government released an ambitious innovation strategy which states that by 2015 it would become an innovative services hub for Northern Europe and an innovation hub by 2020. Biotechnology has been identified as a strategic sector, and whether Lithuania will be able to achieve its ambition of a fully-functioning biotechnology sectoral system of innov...