The study of innovation with regard to territorial services is often complicated by the public or quasipublic good character of many territorial services connected to forestry. Although firm-level innovation can and does occur in relation to territorial goods and services, much innovation occurs...

This chapter explores the ramifications of mandatory intellectual property protection (IPP) in both developed and developing countries, especially as it promotes or inhibits agricultural innovation. It further examines how IPP in developed countries has led to the dominance of private over public...

This chapter describes the innovation system that generated zero tillage (ZT) technology in Argentina, based on a review of relevant literature and semistructured interviews with 21 key informants in Argentina and 43 informants in Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, and the UK. The chapter reviews the...

This chapter explains the difficulties encountered in developing more extensive and intimate patterns of public-private sector interaction in the Indian agricultural research system, and draws implications for reform. An innovation systems framework is used to explore this problem from a wider...

This chapter provides an overview of the rape research actors (involved in a national system of innovation) which have been divided into larger categories (i.e. the public sector, the private sector firms, the collaborative associations, and the related and supporting institutions, including...