Roadmaps and roadmapping techniques receive increasing attention in the Science, Technology Innovation policy community, notably for development of strategies policies to address societal challenges ambitious goals such as SDGs. STI roadmaps are used evoke future visions, align actor expectations formulate, document, plan implement public long-term, sustainability goals. As a sophisticated stra...

Innovation systems can be defined in a variety of ways: they can be national, regional, sectoral, or technological. They all involve the creation, diffusion, and use of knowledge. Systems consist of components, relationships among these, and their characteristics or attributes. The focus of this paper is on the analytical and methodological issues arising from various system concepts. There are...

INTRODUCTION The Public Health Agency of Canada's Multi-sectoral Partnerships Initiative, administered by the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention (CCDP), brings together diverse partners to design, implement and advance innovative approaches for improving population health. This article describes the development and initial priorities of an action research project (a learning and improvement ...

The objective of this paper is to present a way to incorporate sectoral structure within the measures of regional growth provided by the traditional shift-share analysis. The new tool makes it possible to considerer in the decomposition analysis three new effects: sectoral national effect, sectoral structural effect, and sectoral differential effect. To illustrate the analysis of sectoral struc...

BACKGROUND Preparing long term reformatory plan for the health system, like other macro plans, requires guiding principles which is according to the values, and as a bridge, connect the ideals and values to the goals. This study was designed with the purpose of explaining the values and principles of health system, and as a pre-requisite to compilation of Iran's health system reform plan at 202...

The purpose of this study is to advance the information society literature research by examining and developing adoption systems within Village Financial System (SISKEUDES) improve sustainable (SIS). models include DeLone McLean model trust theory, which involves eight variables: system quality, service in government organizations, technology, usage, user satisfaction, net benefits, society. A ...

Innovation is a complex phenomenon and process involving translation of knowledge into new techniques, products, services. It is considered crucial for sustainable agriculture development and achievement of long-term food security. The review describes the diversity of innovation and relates it to agro-food sector. It also sheds light on different innovation models and explores their contributi...

organizations to survive and maintaining their positive and constructive role, are needed new thinking and ideas in order to ensure their own dynamic, otherwise they will be condemned to decay and destruction. one of the factors in the incidence of innovation is the organizational culture that could be promoter or inhibitor of innovation in the organization. in the meantime, according to the ma...

Aligning innovation processes in healthcare with health system demands is a societal objective, not always achieved. In line with earlier contributions, Lehoux et al outline priorities for research, public communication, and policy action to achieve this objective. We endorse setting these priorities, while also highlighting a ‘commitment gap’ in collectively addressing system-level challenges....