This paper presents the significant function of the Chinese National Agricultural Library (CNAL) in the agricultural sci-tech innovation system in China, analyses the development of collection and service in the CNAL, explores the challenge towards sustain and develop information services for the agricultural sci-tech research and innovation, at last proposes the strategy for sci-tech document ...

Introduction This paper makes a presentation of the role of innovation discourse in the Colombian policymaking and government discourse in the last years. In particular is discussed the concept of “social appropriation of knowledge” supported by the Colombian National Department of Science and Technology (COLCIENCIAS) and the agenda of innovation in the Government Plan of the current President ...

In 2008, the Global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property (GSPA-PHI) was launched by the World Health Organization, to stimulate fresh thinking on innovation in, and access to, medicines and to build sustainable research on diseases disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries. As part of the activities of the GSPA-PHI, Sri Lanka has...

Independent innovation is the core of the national development strategy. After twenty years, Extenics made great progress in innovation theory, formal method and real application. Developing and manufacturing innovation software to help people develop intelligence, inspire creation is key for Extenics further developing. Now software model cannot meet the requirements of flexible alternate in i...

As typical emerging economies in the race for acquiring innovation rents, many emerging economies have the urgency to transform their economy in which dependent on export-oriented manufacturing to knowledge-based economy. Many studies highlighted the pathways taken by these economies to achieve development and how distinctive national innovation system contributed to growth and productivity in ...

1 Introduction The national innovation system (NIS) approach brings an alternative to the traditional view of innovation as a process of radical change in frontier sectors. The NIS approach offers a conceptual instrumental extremely useful for the understanding of the innovation dynamics at local, regional and national levels. However, as emphasized by Cassiolato and Lastres (2000), there are s...

Innovation in healthcare can be associated with social innovation and the mission to contribute to a shared value that benefits not only individuals or organizations but the society as a whole. In this paper, we present the prerequisites of stimulating a market for social innovations by studying the introduction of a national health account. The results show that there is a need to clarify if a...

Junran Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Zhongxia Wei, Zhenyao Wu, Meng Tang, Wei Niu, Ming Gao, Zhanpeng Lv, Wenqing Liu, Fengqi Song, Jun Du, Liang He, Rong Zhang, and Yongbing Xu National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China National Laboratory of Soli...

Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, No. 5 Xin Mofan Road, Nanjing 210009, P. R. China. Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Jalan Simpang Tiga, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Jiangsu National...

As part of the European RRI-Practice project, each partner has organised a stakeholder workshop in order to assess the understanding of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the national Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) debates and discuss the practice of RRI within their own national context. This document provides four emerging key insights from an analysis of the findings acro...