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On India's plunge into Nanotechnology: What are good ways to catch-up?

Ramani, Shyama V.; Chowdhury, Nupur; Coronini, Roger; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …

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Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India

Prasad Pant, Laxmi; Hambly Odame, Helen; Hall, Andy; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This discussion paper explores aspects of innovation systems ideas in the analysis of mango production and export by … to aspects of integrated technology development and innovation management. …

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Drivers and Barriers of Innovation Dynamics in Healthcare - Towards a framework for analyzing innovation in Tuberculosis control in India

Engel, Nora - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

changing and with it challenges and opportunities to control the disease. Innovation in a variety of areas such as improved … to respond to the changing public health challenge. This paper reviews theoretical approaches to innovation of direct … relevance to the case and examines what theoretical framework is useful to look at the problem of innovation in public health in …

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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor

Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...

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Flexibility and innovation in response to emerging infectious diseases: Reactions to multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis in India

Engel, Nora - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

flexibility and innovation in public health systems is needed in order to react to changing challenges. This paper will take these … innovation and flexibility of a public health system in a country like India. The discussions and reactions to MDR-TB indicate … start to understand what flexibility and innovation could mean for a public health challenge such as TB in India. The paper …

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India's Outward Foreign Direct Investments in Steel Industry in a Chinese Comparative Perspective

Kumar, Nagesh; Chadha, Alka - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Indian and Chinese enterprises have emerged as important outward investors in recent times with their involvement in a number of prominent Greenfield investments and acquisitions. The theory of international business posits that the ownership of some unique advantages having a revenue generating...

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Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and Their Interplay

Niosi, Jorge; Tschang, F. Ted - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

the MNC. At the same time, the innovation systems perspective is necessary to explain the foundations of the industry. The …

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Experimentation with Strategy and the Evolution of Dynamic Capability in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

Athreye, Suma; Kale, Dinar; Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This paper demonstrates that radical regulatory changes can be tantamount to technological revolutions by studying Indian pharmaceutical firms. It shows that radical regulatory changes such as the Indian Patent Act of 1970, the New Industrial Policy of 1991 and the signing of TRIPS (Trade...

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