Synergy of National Agricultural Innovation Systems

Agricultural Innovation Systems - ISBN: 9780821386842

Extension and advisory services are integral to the AIS, where now more than ever they play a brokering role, linking key actors such as producer organizations, research services, and higher education. This module looks at the history and current status of extension and advisory services and examines important topics such as pluralism, new roles for extension, new kinds of service providers, IC...

Icts as Enablers of Agricultural Innovation Systems

Topic Note 6.1: ICT in the Agricultural Research Process. This section spans the entire agricultural research process from engaging partners and stakeholders, through data collection and analysis, collaboration and knowledge access, publishing and dissemination, to feedback and interactions with rural and other end-user communities. In each of these areas, ICTs are making agricultural research ...

Regional innovation systems in Hungary: The failing synergy at the national level

We use entropy statistics in this paper to measure the synergies of knowledge exploration, knowledge exploitation, and organizational control in the Hungarian innovation system. Our data consists of high-tech, medium-tech firms, and knowledge-intensive services categorized in terms of sub-regions (proxy for geography), industrial sectors (proxy for technology), and firm size (proxy for organiza...

Measuring Triple-Helix Synergy in the Russian Innovation Systems at Regional, Provincial and National Levels

We measure synergy for the Russian national, provincial, and regional innovation systems as reduction of uncertainty using mutual information among the three distributions of firm sizes, technological knowledge-bases of firms, and geographical locations. Half a million data at firm level in 2011 were obtained from the OrbisTM database of Bureau Van Dijk. The firm level data were aggregated at t...

Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems in Transition