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...

 Innovation is best understood broadly, to include anything new in the way a firm operates, in the goods or services it produces, in the processes it uses to do so or in the way it organises to provide its services or produce or distribute its goods. This breadth makes the precise measurement of innovation elusive. While the measurement of the narrower concept of research and development (R&D)...

Maneuvering target tracking is a target motion estimation problem, which can describe the irregular target maneuvering motion. It has been widely used in the field of military and civilian applications. In the maneuvering target tracking, the performance of Kalman filter (KF) and its improved algorithms depend on the accuracy of process noise statistical properties. If there exists deviation be...

Advances in technology and digitalisation have changed the ways services are created and offered to users. Successful new innovative services and service value co-creation are done in collaboration with organisations and actors in contexts such as business ecosystems. The research relating to service design and open innovation in business ecosystems is cross-disciplinary, and relevant knowledge...

This paper introduces an alternative approach to innovation: Emergent Innovation. As opposed to radical innovation Emergent Innovation finds a balance and integrates the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a knowledge management perspective one can boil down this problem to the question of how to cope with th...

Chinese government has issued the “Outline of Medium and Long-term Plan for National Science and Technology Development” in January 2006 (The State Council, 2006), with an ambitious goal to become an innovative country by 2020. Meanwhile, the capacity building for innovation has become the core of national strategies, and results in a fundamental change in the national innovation strategy and r...