Special attention to the relative advantages of the economy is the best way toward economic development in every country. Owing to its considerable natural oil and gas resources, Iran has a high potential for the development of these industries. In the value chain process of these God-given resources, a wide diversity of final downstream petrochemical products has a significant charm and scope ...

Abstract As an emerging market economy and a candidate country for EU membership, Turkey has engaged in large-scale international science research programs organizations Europe since the 1950s, more intensely after its candidacy status commenced at end of 1999. These engagements, which can be framed as Science Diplomacy (SD) efforts, were motivated by Turkish government’s perception that needs ...

Digital technologies’ development and their ubiquity has significantly changed the way information is collected shared. These changes are also observed in ways that knowledge used to design implement Science, Technology, Innovation (STI) policies increasingly made accessible via digital platforms. Lacking, however, evaluation frameworks measure performance effectiveness of public systems for ST...

innovation and sustainable development have been considered fundamental elements in the competitive positioning of companies. the synergies between both concepts, known as eco-innovation, must be considered when designing company policies. the aim of this paper is to analyse which moderating factors determine how innovative companies perform when implementing a sustainable proactive approach...

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 and sustainable development have been considered fundamental elements in the competitive positioning of companies. the synergies between both concepts, known as eco-innovation, must be considered when designing company policies. the aim of this paper is to analyse which moderating factors determine how innovative companies perform when implementing a sustainable proactive approach. w...

Based on the set of an indicator system and the grey relational analysis model, the regional technology innovation ability of China is evaluated. It shows that the regional technology innovation ability of China is improving gradually; the level of technology input and the environment of technology innovation are promoting the development of the technology innovation ability of China, the level...