'A recent report is a welcome analysis of modern agriculture's future, but it fails to adequately recognise the role of science and technology.'

Abstract: 'The main objective of this paper is to provide greater understanding of the systems
of innovation approach as a flexible and useful conceptual framework for spatial innovation
analysis. It presents an effort to develop some missing links and to decrease the conceptual
noise often present in the discussions on national innovation systems. The paper specifies
elements and relations that seem to be essential to the conceptual core of the framework and
argues that there is no a prior more...

The U.K.'s National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA), a nonprofit organization that promotes innovation, has created this two year project to develop new approaches to the measurement of innovation.

Ireland has moved from a scientific backwater of Europe to develop a vibrant effort to innovate industrially based on advances in the life sciences. In this special supplement of TheScientist.com (July 2008), the process of this transformation is reviewed and the current situation is described. The supplement has a number of articles by Irish experts, divided into three sections: Policy, Industry, and Research. Given the number of developing nations that seek to learn from the Irish success, thi more...

UNESCO’s University-Industry-Science Partnership (UNISPAR) program was launched in 1993 to improve the quality of universities in developing countries and encourage them to become more involved in the process of industrialization of their country.

Since 2002, UNISPAR has focused on capacity-building and technical assistance in the governance of science and technology parks. The expected results are:

1. stronger partnerships and linkages between universities and industry, including sma more...

The World Bank convened a Global Forum on STI Capacity Building for Sustainable Growth and Poverty Reduction in February 2007.. This book constitutes the Proceedings of that Global Forum. 2008. (PDF)

This UNESCO sponsored workshop was held at the
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester, 27-29 February 2008,(PDF, 5 pages)