Methodology for assessing innovation market capacity

Innovation and Regional Absorptive Capacity: the Labour Market Dimension

This paper tests how the labour market characteristics of European regions shape regional absorptive capacity (RACAP), and regions’ ability to assimilate knowledge from public and externally-conducted R&D. In particular, we aim to establish whether labour market aspects of RACAP are more important for innovation in prosperous or lagging regions of the EU. Using European Innovation Scoreboard da...

Innovation Capacity in Agricultural Sector

The changing context for agricultural development has highlighted a strong need to understand and adoptinnovation systems thinking. Science, technology and innovation policy has equated rural development toagricultural development. The main objective of this paper was to examine the role of innovation capacity inagricultural sector. With the growing diversification of rural livelihood options i...

The Market for Open Innovation

College Quarterly - Articles - Exploring Market and Competitive Intelligence Research as a Source for Enhancing Innovation Capacity

Canadian companies are facing significant challenges in new product development and commercialization. The result of the survey of the 1,091 Canadian inventors conducted by Astebro and Simon (2002) revealed that only seven percent of inventions reach the market. Inadequate market analysis, competitive strength and reaction, lack of effective marketing effort, and product problems are consistent...

A new methodology for assessing health policy and systems research and analysis capacity in African universities

BACKGROUND The importance of health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR+A) has been increasingly recognised, but it is still unclear how most effectively to strengthen the capacity of the different organisations involved in this field. Universities are particularly crucial but the expansive literature on capacity development has little to offer the unique needs of HPSR+A activity wit...