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Using the concept of innovation capacity, this book, using recent field data from countries in Asia and Africa, competently demonstrates how biotechnology can contribute to sustainable economic development. The approach articulates the imperative for developing countries to build up specific capabilities backed up by policies and institutions.
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Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka has contributed extensively to the field of innovation and development over the past two decades. Having obtained a PhD from the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK, he has worked for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, the African Technology Policy Studies Network, UNCTAD and UNU-INTECH (now MERIT). He is currently Director of the Monitoring and Research Division at UN-HABITAT in Nairobi.
Padmashree Gehl Sampath is an expert on innovation and development issues having worked for several years as a Researcher at the United Nations University-MERIT and then as a Lecturer on International Development and Innovation at the Open University, UK. She is currently a United Nations staff memberat UNCTAD, Geneva and has contributed extensively to international and regional debates on these issues through her research and from the various projects that she has led in the field.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security
Book Subtitle: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers
Authors: Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Padmashree Gehl Sampath
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277991
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22882-5Published: 30 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31024-1Published: 30 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27799-1Published: 30 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 237
Topics: Development Economics, International Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Sustainability Management, International Economics, Industrial Organization