This chapter focuses on the critical aspects of policy, institutional and ownership of planted forests. The different perspectives of private sector corporate and smallholder are highlighted from an investment perspective. An economic valuation of wood and other non-wood-based products is given....

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...

Brazil is the world's fifth largest country. It is still heavily dependent on agricultural products. Most of the agricultural biotechnology research and development is supported by government (heavily financed by the World Bank) within government institutions. There is an urgency to stimulate the...

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...

This chapter examines the history of the development of the rape industry to highlight the critical role of collective institutions in its development, both to illustrate the role that not-for-profit associations have played in furthering industrial development and to assess how these new...