This study investigates how context-specific institutional factors affect innovative capabilities of the agricultural crop biotechnology sector in Hungary. Answering this question has involved three areas of research, into: the network of actors and its accommodation of technological characteristics; the sustained use of institutional arrangements which characterised the pre-transition science ...

Li-Juan Zhou, Lang-Tao Xiao, and Hong-Wei Xue National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200032 Shanghai, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China Hunan Provinci...

To address Agricultural University’s courses on the characteristics of chemical experiments, we designed an experimental chemistry platform. The platform includes modules on teaching resources, self-tests, interaction, and virtual experiments to build a user-friendly learning environment for the students. It was shown that the interactive teaching model engaged the students’ interest and helped...

Capacity development is essential to achieving the U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) objectives of inclusive and sustainable agriculture-led economic growth, resilience among people and systems, and a well-nourished population. While there are numerous definitions and approaches to capacity development, a Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (CDAIS)1 app...

National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (W.Z., T.L., Y.Z., C.Z.); State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China (G.R.); Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, CH–8008 Zurich, Swit...

1 Regional Innovation Center for Dental Science & Engineering, Chosun University, 309 Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju, 501-759, Korea. 2 Agricultural College of Yanbian University, Yanji 133002, Jilin, China. 3 Department of Botany and Microbiology, Addiriyah Chair for Environmental Studies, College of Science, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. 4 Department of Cro...

Institute of Exact Science, Federal University of Alfenas – UNIFAL, CEP 37130-000, Alfenas, MG, Brazil Department of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar, CEP 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute for Innovation and Business, National Nanotechnology Laboratory for Agribusiness – LNNA, Embrapa Agricultural Instrumentation, São Carlo...

This paper reviews and assesses some of the Productive Development Policies currently being implemented in Uruguay. We have selected three horizontal and three vertical policies and consider them in light of the market and public failures they attempt to address and minimize. Horizontal policies comprise Innovation, Industrial Promotion and Directives for Industrial and Technological Developmen...

Xu Wang1, Xianglian Liu2, Shijia Su2, Ihsan Awais3, Qianying Liu2, Dongmei Chen2, Zhenli Liu4, Yulian Wang4* and Zonghui Yuan1,2,4* 1National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues (HZAU) and MAO Key Laboratory for Detection of Veterinary Drug Residues, China 2MOA Laboratory for Risk Assessment of Quality and Safety of Livestock and Poultry Products, Huazhong Agricultural University, ...