Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-07-17T22:45:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 33c.pdf: 1647534 bytes, checksum: d38839966d3f5f1486568ea3394baf47 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-17T22:45:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 33c.pdf: 1647534 bytes, checksum: d38839966d3f5f1486568ea3394baf47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-29 / UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / Este estudo teve por objetivo compreender as caraterísticas das empresas industriais do segmento de equipamentos médicos, hospitalares e odontológicos localizadas no RS quanto aos seus processos inovativos. Para isto realizou-se uma pesquisa de caráter teórico-empírica. Utilizaram-se dados de fontes secundárias de informação, especialmente do Relatório Anual de Informações Sociais (RAIS) e do Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq e fontes primárias de informação. Optou-se por uma pesquisa de campo, com uma amostra de dezessete empresas, em que se buscou, por meio da aplicação de um instrumento de pesquisa, de forma presencial, coletar informações a cerca dos processos inovativos, interação universidade-empresa e avaliação das empresas sobre as ações de promoção existentes para o setor. O desenvolvimento da pesquisa foi alicerçado numa abordagem teórica sobre sistemas nacionais de inovação, sistema de inovação em saúde e interação universidade-empresa. Os resultados mostraram que as empresas estão num processo crescente de desenvolvimento e inovação em produto, em processo e organizacional. Para inovar buscam informações de diversas fontes de conhecimento. Com relação às fontes internas, a área de vendas/marketing e serviços de atendimento ao cliente foi indicada pelas empresas como a principal fonte de informação para inovar. No que tange às fontes externas à empresa, os clientes, profissionais da saúde e os hospitais foram considerados como fontes muito relevantes para o processo de inovação das empresas. Quanto às parcerias estabelecidas, os clientes foram considerados o principal agente para se estabelecer parcerias. Empresas buscam estabelecer parceria com as universidades e o objetivo principal é o desenvolvimento de projetos de P&D em conjunto e a obtenção de validação de produtos por meio de ensaios laboratoriais; fica evidente que este relacionamento lhes confere credibilidade frente ao mercado. O fortalecimento das relações entre os diversos atores do sistema de inovação em saúde é fundamental para o desenvolvimento e fortalecimento do setor de EMHO no RS. / This study aimed to understand the characteristics of the industrial companies of the segment of medical, hospital and dental equipments, located in RS, about their innovative processes. For this, a theoretical and empirical survey was applied. Secondary data information, from Annual Report of Social Information (ARSI) and from CNPq Directory of Research Groups, and primary data were used. A field survey, with a sample of seventeen companies, was personally applied in order to collect information about the innovative processes, university-industry interaction and the assessment of companies about the existent actions for the sector promotion. The development of the research was grounded in a theoretical approach about national innovation systems, health innovation system and university-industry interactions. The results showed that the companies are in growing process of development and of innovation in product and process and organizational. To innovate, they use information from different sources of knowledge. About the internal sources, the area of sales and marketing and customer service was indicated by companies as the main source of information for innovation. Regarding the external sources, clients, health professionals and hospitals were considered highly relevant sources for the innovation process of companies. Considering the partnerships, customers were considered the main agent to establish partnerships. Companies interact with universities with the main purpose of developing R&D projects together and get the product validation by laboratory tests; it is evident that this relationship gives them credibility in the market. Strengthening relations between the various actors in the health innovation system is critical to the development and strengthening of EMHO sector in RS.

¡@¡@At present, the essence situation of biotechnology industries in Taiwan lacks a market-oriented innovation system as sturdy as in advanced countries such as U.S.A., Canada, European Union, and Japan, et cetera. In the technology innovation processes including different gradations such as basic science, application research, technologies development and commercialization, all the R&D of biotechnology industries in Taiwan, ready for a innovation system, many strategies and projects with relation to R&D. However, in the commercialization gradation, having an unremarkable and approximate gap among biotechnology industries, venture capitals, authorities, academia, research institutes and corporations, with reciprocal effects to each other, that are inferior to these advanced countries. ¡@¡@The thesis research in estimating for the R&D performances of biotechnology industries in Taiwan, it makes use of the SPSS l0.0 and AMOS 5.0 for Windows to compute all raw data of sampling survey, after analyzing to demonstrate the structural equation modeling of estimating at the R&D performances of biotechnology industries of Taiwan, that the final result make sure of perfect goodness of fit for the model. The model could be transform into different structures to estimating at the R&D performances of all circles of biotechnology, to make up the gap between anticipated success and unexpected failure. ¡@¡@The conclusion reveals a special significance of business management, means that the R&D innovation system of biotechnology industries of Taiwan, should be operated in coordination with specific strategies and policies of the authorities, then certainty executing all science and technology projects to obtain the R&D performances in essence. In other words, the R&D innovation system of biotech industries of Taiwan still has many demands for investing more human resource, venture capital in R&D, having a well-arranged application for system resources, supplying the market with many well-appropriated laws and regulations, to communicating with international science and technology innovation systems in the world, et cetera. After accomplishing all as above, the R&D prospect of Taiwan¡¦s biotechnology industries will be well in the future.

Submitted by Alzir Antônio Mahl (alzir_mahl@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-10T11:54:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ALZIR ANTONIO MAHL_Impressão.pdf: 14048608 bytes, checksum: 9be7df17ffa2c77f8b1b9025cc96badd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lopes (silopes@ufba.br) on 2017-05-10T14:52:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ALZIR ANTONIO MAHL_Impressão.pdf: 14048608 bytes, checksum: 9be7df17ffa2c77f8b1b9025cc96badd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-10T14:52:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ALZIR ANTONIO MAHL_Impressão.pdf: 14048608 bytes, checksum: 9be7df17ffa2c77f8b1b9025cc96badd (MD5) / A pesquisa buscou avaliar a evolução dos sistemas regionais de inovação no Brasil no período 2000 a 2011. Foram analisados os sistemas de inovação de 13 (treze) estados selecionados das cinco macrorregiões do Brasil, considerando para tanto: se as empresas empregaram conhecimento tecnológico nas atividades de inovação; se a produção e difusão do conhecimento tecnológico são elementos que melhoram o desempenho de um sistema regional de inovação; se é possível caracterizar estes sistemas regionais de inovação a partir das informações sobre as inovações das empresas e; se a maturidade dos SRIs pode ser avaliada por meio de variáveis relacionadas com as atividades de inovação. Para tanto, utilizaram-se as informações relatadas nas atividades de inovação pelas empresas na PINTEC destes estados como variável proxy para representar os sistemas regionais. Realizou-se uma revisão bibliográfica sobre conceitos relacionados ao trabalho, como conhecimento tecnológico, sistema de inovação e sistema regional de inovação, bem como discutiu-se o tema das políticas multinível ou mix de políticas, que podem ser, por exemplo, a combinação das políticas industrial e de inovação. Ademais, utilizaram-se os estados como unidades de análise dos SRIs, pelo fato destes possuírem os ingredientes necessários para caracterização dos sistemas regionais de inovação. A metodologia da pesquisa foi baseada na análise multivariada de dados, na qual os dados capturados das empresas participantes da pesquisa PINTEC dos anos de 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008 e 2011, foram agrupadas em variáveis onde aplicou-se a técnica da análise fatorial. Esta técnica permitiu a redução das 46 variáveis iniciais para uma matriz 13x67 (treze variáveis e sessenta e sete observações), o que permitiu a análise dos 13 SRIs a partir da obtenção de três fatores após a análise fatorial, denominados de Produção de Conhecimentos, Impactos e Obstáculos. No período da pesquisa, verificou-se a evolução dos SRIs em geral, pelo aumento da produção de conhecimentos e dos impactos das inovações, bem como da diminuição dos obstáculos às atividades de inovação das empresas. Como resultado, foi realizada uma análise das correlações entre os três fatores e indicadores de desenvolvimento socioeconômico (PIB per capita, Índice de Gini e Produtividade do Trabalho na Indústria) para os trezes SRIs. A definição de um indicador de correlação permitiu classificar os estados quanto à correlação entre as atividades de inovação e o desenvolvimento socioeconômico, resultando na formação de quatro grupos de estados, a saber: estados com correlação mais forte, moderada, média e fraca. / ABSTRACT The research aimed to evaluate the development of regional innovation systems in Brazil from 2000 to 2011. The innovation systems of thirteen selected states from the five macro regions of Brazil were analyzed considering: if companies used technological knowledge in innovation activities; if the production and dissemination of technological knowledge improve the performance of a regional innovation system; if it is possible to characterize these regional innovation systems from the information on the companies’ innovations and; if the maturity of SRIs can be evaluated by means of variables related to innovation activities. The information reported during innovation activities by the PINTEC companies in these states were used as a proxy variable to represent the regional systems. A literature review was conducted on concepts related to work, such as technological knowledge, innovation system and regional innovation system as well as the issue of multilevel policies or policy mix, which can be, for example, the combination of industrial and innovation policies. Moreover, the states were used as units of analysis of SRIs, because they have the necessary ingredients to characterize the regional innovation systems. The research methodology was based on multivariate data analysis, in which the captured data of the participating companies on PINTEC research from the years 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2011 were grouped into variables, where the technique of factor analysis was applied. This technique allowed the reduction of the 46 initial variables for a 13x67 matrix (thirteen variables and sixty-seven observations), which allowed the analysis of 13 SRIs from the achievement of three factors after the factor analysis, named Knowledge Production, Impacts and Obstacles. During the survey, it was possible to notice the evolution of SRIs in general, by the increase of knowledge production and the impact of innovation, as well as the reduction of barriers to the companies innovation activities. As a result, an analysis of correlations between the three factors and socio-economic development indicators (GDP per capita, Gini Index and Labor Productivity in Industry) was held for the thirteen SRIs. The definition of a correlation indicator allowed to classify the states about the correlation between innovation activity and socioeconomic development, resulting in the formation of four groups of states: states with stronger, moderate, medium and weak correlation.

Die Bedeutung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle als Bestimmungsfaktor für den Unternehmenserfolg steht weitestgehend außer Frage. Aufgrund der hohen Komplexität von Geschäftsmodellen hat sich jedoch bislang kein praktisch anwendbares Bewertungskonzept etablieren können, welches Geschäftsmodellinnovationen in Hinblick auf deren Erfolgsentwicklung untersucht. Zur Adressierung dieser Problemstellung wird unter Anwendung des systemdynamischen Ansatzes ein Simulationsmodell entwickelt, welches den Wertbeitrag einer Geschäftsmodellinnovation ausweist. Neben dem Kapitalwert als finanzielle Wertgröße des Geschäftsmodells werden ferner der Kundenwert sowie der Wert der unternehmerischen Fähigkeiten als wichtige Wertgrößen explizit gemacht, da sie die zukünftige Leistungs- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Geschäftsmodells determinieren. Damit liefert das Bewertungsmodell einen Ansatz zur ganzheitlichen Geschäftsmodellbewertung, die die Anwendung finanzieller Standardkalkulationen mit der Messbarmachung nicht-finanzieller Erfolgsgrößen kombiniert.:1 Einführung 2 Geschäftsmodelle und Geschäftsmodellbewertung 3 Entwicklungsprozess des systemdynamischen Geschäftsmodells bedarfsabhängiger Funktionserweiterungen 4 Aufbau des systemdynamischen Geschäftsmodells bedarfsabhängiger Funktionserweiterungen 5 Simulation des systemdynamischen Geschäftsmodells bedarfsabhängiger Funktionserweiterungen 6 Schlussbetrachtung / Business model innovations provide powerful levers for creating sustainable competitive advantage and thus have a positive impact on the value of an enterprise. However, due to the complexity of business models, no practically applicable framework, evaluating an innovative business model with regard to its effect on a company’s success, has been established. Hence, a simulation model assessing the value contribution of a business model innovation is developed. Using the mathematical modeling technique ‘System Dynamics’ to frame the value drivers of a business allows for simulation experiments that reveal the effect of the business model’s design on its profitability, therewith guiding policymakers towards better decisions. As a result, the simulation model reports the net present value of a business model. In addition, the success indicators customer lifetime value and the value of the enterprises’ capabilities are identified as important assets that have to be monitored closely as they determine the company’s prospective performance. In combining financial standard calculations with the operationalization of non-financial measures, the simulation model represents a comprehensive approach for business model evaluation.:1 Einführung 2 Geschäftsmodelle und Geschäftsmodellbewertung 3 Entwicklungsprozess des systemdynamischen Geschäftsmodells bedarfsabhängiger Funktionserweiterungen 4 Aufbau des systemdynamischen Geschäftsmodells bedarfsabhängiger Funktionserweiterungen 5 Simulation des systemdynamischen Geschäftsmodells bedarfsabhängiger Funktionserweiterungen 6 Schlussbetrachtung

There is consensus about a need to reduce the amount of green-house gas emission in the electricity industry to be able to deal with the probable consequences of climate change. This necessitates extensive investments in technologies used to generate electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E). To stimulate such investments, governments have enacted several policy instruments. However, the outcomes of these instruments are mixed. This thesis delineates two reasons for the different effects of policies. First, the development of the renewable electricity industry hinges on a set of driving forces that differ across regions, through the years and for different actors. Given that, policy instruments are not only driving forces behind the renewable electricity industry and can thus by themselves not explain its development. Second, RES-E investors comprise a heterogeneous group of actors whose perceptions of business opportunities vary substantially and are also based on a variety of driving forces. Hence, RES-E investors may react differently to changes within the electricity industry, as well as to government policies that aim to create a more sustainable electricity industry. Garnering a better understanding of these reactions is therefore important as they influence the pace of transition to a more sustainable electricity industry. This is an interdisciplinary study that brings together several theories and research areas. First, using the technological innovation system perspective, it identifies systemic driving forces behind the development of the renewable energy industry that will also accelerate the electricity industry transitions to sustainability. To gain a better insight into the role of policy instruments as such as well as in relation to other driving forces, this thesis explores what factors are accounted for in attempts to assess the instruments’ performance. Second, drawing on sustainability transition studies and dynamic capability theories, this thesis seeks to explore which firms are willing to contribute—and capable of contributing—to sustainability transitions in the electricity industry. The thesis argues that good forecast and policy plans need to be built on a solid understanding of the firms that change the structure of the electricity industry through their RES-E investments. This thesis leverages a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. Empirical data are collected through two extensive literature reviews on the driving forces of the renewable energy industry development in Europe, a longitudinal case study on a European multinational energy company, and statistical analyses of data on RES-E investors in Sweden. The thesis makes theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions to this area of research. The findings explain what motivates the development of the renewable energy industry; who competes in the renewable electricity industry; and what the future renewable electricity industry may look like. The thesis outlines implications for policies, for managers as well as for renewable energy technologies. / <p>This research was conducted within the framework of the “European Doctorate in Industrial Management” - EDIM - which is funded by The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of European Commission under Erasmus Mundus Action 1 programme. </p><p>QC 20160119</p>

The thesis deals with the analysis of Nachod and Tachov regions' economic structure. The aim of this work is to discover the range and character of differences between these regional economic structures within a national innovation system. Regions showing approximately similar vertical geographic position were chosen for the analysis deliberately, however they differ in various actualities, such as, for instance, their position in terms of west-east gradient, or more precisely horizontal geographic position. Based on the analysis of the relationship between the suppliers and consumers, manufacturing programmes, and not least ownership structures, the basic typology of the economic subjects from the manufacturing industry was executed. The results of this analysis point out significant dependence of the Tachov region on the activities of foreign investors and underdeveloped entrepreneurial environment. Nachod region reports, in the interregional comparison, better results in assessing the economic structure and features clearly more endogenous regional development than Tachov region. Key words: global production network, regional innovation system, manufacturing industry, economic structure

Le changement climatique et la variabilité ont des répercussions graves dans le secteur agricole des régions tropicales. Le secteur du café est sensible au changement climatique car il nécessite une température relativement froide et une plus grande durée des pluies. L'adaptation au changement climatique dans l'agroforesterie du café est donc importante pour traiter les impacts, mais il existe des obstacles et des limites. Le but de cette thèse était d'analyser les stratégies d'adaptation au changement climatique au centre du Kenya. Nous avons étudié différentes étapes de l'adaptation qui incluent (1) les connaissances sur le changement climatique et l'adaptation, la motivation à l'adaptation, (2) le choix actuel des stratégies d'adaptation et leurs déterminants, (3) les rôles du système d'innovation et du contexte institutionnel. Cette étude repose sur quatre sources d'information: - (1) groupes de discussion sur des questionnaires pré-définis, (2) enquêtes auprès des ménages, (3) entrevues auprès des intervenants et (4) données climatiques historiques sur le contexte de quatre types de systèmes de productions dans l’agriculture : les cultures vivrières, le café spécialisé, les systèmes diversifiés café-laiterie et les systèmes laitiers spécialisés, dans les zones caféières et vivrières. L'analyse des tendances de Mann-Kendal et l'estimateur de la pente de Sen ont été utilisées pour comparer les connaissances des agriculteurs sur les changements climatiques et l’historique des données climatiques, tandis que le modèle de Heckman a été utilisé pour analyser les stratégies d'adaptation et leurs déterminants. Les résultats soulignent des cohérences entre les connaissances des agriculteurs et l'analyse historique des données pour la température mais des incohérences avec le changement des précipitations. L'analyse de la perception par les agriculteurs révèle que les précipitations diminuent radicalement au fil du temps, alors qu'aucun élément de preuve concernant les précipitations ne permet d'appuyer la perception des agriculteurs. L'incohérence est donc corroborée par l'analyse des modèles. Les agriculteurs du secteur du café et des cultures vivrières se sont adaptés différemment aux changements climatiques. Les agriculteurs qui sont conscients des changements sont plus disposés à explorer les stratégies d'adaptation. Une partie des agriculteurs qui ne perçoivent pas le changement climatique adoptent des stratégies d’adaptation à des facteurs autres. L'adaptation au changement climatique est également déterminée par la performance institutionnelle et les différences de systèmes sectoriels d'innovation. La comparaison entre les secteurs du café et des produits laitiers révèle ainsi que les stratégies des acteurs du café sont limitées. En ce qui concerne l’élaboration des politiques, cette thèse contribue aux politiques d’accompagnement de l’adaptation au niveau des ménages, aux politiques de recherche agronomique et de négociation des accords internationaux. Les recommandations politiques au niveau des ménages se différentient selon trois scénarios. En premier lieu de l’intensification dans le café par l’innovation technologique. Les deux autres options politiques sont dans la diversification sectorielle dans la production laitière qui dépend de leur niveau de rentabilité. Les résultats de cette étude sont issus d’enquêtes sur l’analyse des systèmes d’innovation. D’autres options politiques sont proposées dans le développement de nouvelles infrastructures, des subventions pour accroitre les potentiels d’adaptation. Nous recommandons enfin de nouveaux sujets de recherche pour le futur. / Climate change and variability is the most widespread anthropogenic challenge affecting agricultural production and productivity particularly in the tropics. Coffee sector is sensitive to climate change as it requires relatively cold temperature and higher rainfall duration. Adaptation to climate change in the coffee agroforestry is, therefore, important to address the impacts, but there are barriers, and limits. The aim of this Thesis was to analyze the adaptation strategies to climate change in Central Kenya. We studied the steps in adaptation, which includes (1) the knowledge on climate change and adaptation, the motivation towards adaptation, (2) current choices of households’ adaptation strategies, and their determinants, (3) the roles of innovation system and institutional context to support adaptation. This study was based on four sources of information: - (1) Focus Group Discussions to predefine the questionnaires, (2) household surveys, (3) stakeholders interview, and, (4) historical climate data. The data collection considered four farming typologies; - food crops, specialized coffee, diversified coffee-dairy and specialized dairy farming systems in the coffee and food crops zones. Mann-Kendal trend analysis and Sen’s slope estimator were used to compare the farmers’ knowledge of climate change with the historical climate data, while Heckman model was used to analyze adaptation strategies and their determinants. The findings explore consistent results between farmers’ knowledge and historical data analysis for temperature, while inconsistency is observed in rainfall change. Analysis of farmers’ perception revealed rainfall is radically declining over time, while no evidence in rainfall record is found to support the farmers’ perception. The inconsistency is therefore, substantiated with analysis of patterns. Coffee and food crop farmers are found to adapt to climate change differently. Farmers who are aware of the changes are found more willing to explore adaptation strategies although some of the farmers who do not perceive the climate is changing are also adopting strategies for factors other than perception. The comparison between coffee and dairy sectors found that actors in the coffee are limited, the system is highly centralized with limited options for farmers to process and market their products, while the dairy sector is informally controlled by demand based business and comparatively, numerous actors. We conclude in this study that the patterns in rainfall affects the farming activities of the study area higher than the annual changes. Consequently, farmers adopt a series of adaptation strategies in response to their perception of changes in climate and economic pressure in the farm. This adaptation to climate change also depends on the nature of actors’ interaction and institutional context. In relation to policy development, this Thesis contributes to household level adaptation policies, research policies and international agreements and negotiations. The household level policy recommendations consists of three scenarios. Farmers’ intensification in coffee applying the right technological innovations. The second and third policy options are the diversification to dairy and complete sectoral transformation to dairy depending on the profitability and adaptation level of the sectors. The results in this study are derived from surveys and analysis of innovation systems. Other strategies such as new infrastructural development and institutional subsidies could be potential for adaptation. We therefore, recommend, these could be potential future research topics.

O mundo volta suas atenções para o fenômeno de crescimento econômico observado na China nas últimas décadas. Neste contexto, a literatura contemporânea destaca as iniciativas do governo chinês para transformar o país em uma potência voltada para a geração de inovações tecnológicas. Essa trajetória diferenciada começa a ser determinada, de forma mais contundente, a partir da abertura econômica promovida sob liderança de Deng Xiaoping em 1978 e possui em seus sucessores a continuidade deste projeto estratégico. Assim, sustenta-se a ideia de que exista um projeto estratégico, idealizado pelo Estado chinês, que busca promover a capacidade de gerar inovações tecnológicas como um dos meios para a resolução dos principais entraves ao crescimento do país, tais como: a manutenção da alta produtividade; a diminuição da deterioração na distribuição de renda; a redução dos impactos do crescimento em termos de poluição ambiental; a criação de fontes de energia sustentáveis e renováveis, das quais o país possui enorme carência; aproximação do país da fronteira tecnológica global. Para além disso, o desenvolvimento da capacidade de gerar inovações é fundamental para garantir o crescimento sustentável da renda e evitar a armadilha da renda média, facilitando a transição do país do status de renda média para a alta. Presume-se, assim, que o esforço em promover as inovações faça parte de uma escolha estratégica adotada pelo Estado que busca, através da melhoria técnica, a solução para os enormes desafios expostos anteriormente. Inspirado pelos pontos de convergência das perspectivas neo-schumpeteriana e institucionalista, esta tese se propõe a avaliar a intencionalidade do Estado na criação de instituições voltadas para a promoção das inovações nativas na China, denominadas de “Zizhu Chuangxin”. Mais especificamente, quer se demonstrar a dinâmica de atuação do Estado no sistema nacional de inovações do país. Com base na análise das instituições criadas, extintas ou modificadas, expressas na forma física (criação de institutos, organismos, ministérios, etc.) ou representadas por leis, hábitos, costumes, padrões de comportamento e crenças, quer se sugerir uma periodização histórica das políticas e das intenções do Estado na promoção das inovações tecnológicas como forma de diminuir os obstáculos estruturais na continuidade do processo de desenvolvimento econômico da China. Diante do exposto, a principal hipótese de pesquisa é a de que, conforme amadurecem as capacidades internas nacionais de aquisição, da assimilação e do aperfeiçoamento de tecnologias existentes na fronteira do conhecimento, os canais de atuação do Estado chinês na indução das inovações têm-se alterado ao longo do tempo em resposta às demandas estratégicas constituídas pelo avanço econômico do país. Essa situação demostra que o processo de melhoria das condições tecnológicas da China não é um processo espontâneo guiado pelas forças de mercado, mas sim, liderado em grande parte, por ações executadas pelo Estado chinês na intenção de criar um ambiente institucional favorável à inovação. / The world turns its attention to the phenomenon of economic growth observed in China in recent decades. In this context, the contemporary literature highlights the initiatives of the Chinese government to transform the country into a Great Power aimed at generating technological innovations. This differentiated trajectory begins to be determined, more incisively, from the economic opening that was taking place under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping in 1978 and has in its successors the continuity of this strategic project. Thus, the idea that there is a strategic project is maintained, the one idealized by the Chinese State, which seeks to promote the capacity to generate technological innovations as one of the means to solve the main obstacles to the country's growth, such as: productivity; the decrease of the deterioration in the distribution of income; reducing the environmental impacts of growth; the creation of sustainable and renewable energy sources, of which the country has an enormous deficiency; bringing the country closer to the global technological frontier. Beyond that, developing the ability to generate innovation is critical to ensuring sustainable income growth and avoiding the middle income trap, facilitating the country's transition from middle to high income status. It is presumed, therefore, that the effort to promote innovation is part of a strategic choice adopted by the State that seeks, through technical improvement, the solution to the enormous challenges presented above. Inspired by the points of convergence of the neo-Schumpeterian and institutionalist perspectives, this thesis proposes to evaluate the intentionality of the State in the creation of institutions aimed at promoting native innovations in China, called "Zizhu Chuangxin". More specifically, the thesis wants to demonstrate the dynamics of State action in the country's national innovation system. Based on the analysis of the created, extinct or modified institutions, expressed in the physical form (creation of institutes, agencies, ministries, etc.) or represented by laws, habits, customs, behavior patterns and beliefs, the work suggests a historical periodization of policies and State intentions in promoting technological innovations as a way to reduce structural obstacles in the continuity of China's economic development process. In view of the above, the main research hypothesis argues that, as national domestic capacities for acquiring, assimilating and improving of existing technologies at the knowledge frontier mature, the Chinese State's channels used to induce innovations have changed over time in response to the strategic demands made by the country's economic progress. This situation demonstrates that the process of improving China's technological conditions is not a spontaneous process driven by market forces but rather led, in large part, by actions intentionally carried out by the Chinese State to create a favorable institutional environment for innovation.

Avec la globalisation des échanges et la nécessité de répondre à de nouveaux enjeux liés au changement climatique et à la crise énergétique, les agricultures africaines sont sollicitées pour produire de nouvelles cultures. L‘introduction de ces dernières dans les espaces productifs a connu des succès, comme le cas de l‘anacarde (noix de cajou) en Afrique de l‘Ouest ou des déconvenues, comme c‘est actuellement le cas du jatropha dans toute cette région. Ces résultats ont des intensités, des rationalités, des formes, des trajectoires diverses en fonction des espaces dans lesquels ils ont lieu. Ainsi au sein d‘un même pays, certaines régions s‘empareront de ces cultures alors que d‘autres les rejetteront plus ou moins rapidement. Comprendre les raisons de ces succès et échecs en relation avec leur localisation est un enjeu majeur pour accompagner au mieux ces changements. Ainsi, cette thèse questionne la forme et la dynamique d‘une innovation agricole au regard de son ancrage territorial. Actuellement, le concept de Système d‘Innovation (SI) offre un cadre d‘analyse systémique des processus d‘innovations. Mais ce dernier est généralement appliqué à des échelles nationales ou sectorielles ; la dimension territoriale n‘y est que rarement prise en compte. L‘objectif de cette thèse est de construire un cadre d‘analyse territorial de l‘innovation selon une approche fonctionnaliste, permettant d‘identifier les fonctions que le SI et le territoire doivent activer conjointement pour que l‘innovation puisse se diffuser. Ce cadre a été construit à partir de la littérature et d‘observations de terrain avant d‘être appliqué aux cas de l‘anacarde et du jatropha dans le sud-ouest du Burkina Faso. La démarche mise en place, allie des enquêtes, une analyse spatiale de l‘innovation et une grille d‘évaluation des relations entre fonctionnement du SI et fonctionnement des territoires. Les résultats mettent en évidence des facteurs de blocage et les synergies expliquant le degré d‘adoption de l‘innovation, tels que l‘accessibilité du territoire, sa capacité d‘échange, son système productif, la légitimité de ses institutions, etc. Ils permettent de comprendre la dynamique de l‘innovation agricole comme un processus d‘interactions successives avec le territoire et mettent également en lumière le rôle de l‘innovation dans les changements territoriaux en cours. La grille d‘analyse offre aussi des perspectives d‘utilisation prédictive pour évaluer le développement d‘une innovation selon les caractéristiques des territoires. Enfin, des recommandations sont formulées en faveur d‘actions localisées et priorisées afin d‘améliorer l‘efficacité des systèmes d‘innovation agricoles. / Due to globalization of trade and the need to fulfill the challenges raised by climate change and the energy crisis, African agricultures are required to grow new crops. Their insertion in productive spaces has been successful like the cashew nut in West Africa, or has encountered some setbacks as it is currently the case of jatropha across the region. These results have intensities, rationalities, forms and various trajectories, depending on the spaces in which they take place. Thus, within a country, some regions will be able to take hold of these crops whereas others won‘t and will reject it more or less rapidly. Understand the inner workings of success or failures in connection with their localization is a major issue to provide the best support to these changes. So, this PhD thesis questions the shapes and dynamics of agricultural innovation in terms of its territorial integration. Currently, the Innovation System (IS) concept provides a systematic analytical frame for innovation processes. But it is usually applied to national or sectorial levels; territorial dimension is rarely taken into account. The objective of this thesis is to build a territorial analysis of the innovation in a functionalist framework, identifying the functions that the IS and the territory must activate jointly for innovation to diffuse. This analytical framework has been built on the literature and on field observations, then it has been implemented on the cases of cashew nut and jatropha in the south-west region of Burkina Faso. The developed approach combines surveys, a spatial analysis of innovation and evaluation of the relations between IS and territories functioning. Results highlight synergies and blocking factors explaining the degree of adoption of innovation, such as the accessibility of the territory, its ability to exchange, its productive system, the legitimacy of its institutions, etc. They provide a means for understanding the dynamics of agricultural innovation as a process of successive interactions with the territory, and also highlighting the role of innovation in current territorial changes. The analytical framework provides also perspectives for a predictive approach to assess the future development of an innovation according to the characteristics of the territories. Finally, recommendations are made for localized and prioritized actions in order to improve the efficiency of agricultural innovation systems.

The practice of forcing onto developing countries policies developed in other contexts assumes standardised paths to social and economic growth. These policies should enable rapid economic development by “correcting” local market inefficiencies, without considering the role these may have in preserving stability and preventing violence. Moreover, this approach does not address the compatibility of such policies with the culture, values and norms of the receiving country. The thesis aims at extending our understanding of success factors for policy transfer, focusing on organisational schemes for innovation support. It follows the pragmatic Research paradigm and adopts a deductive approach using mixed methods to study the link between administrative efficiency and innovation performance in developing countries, an under-researched area. This thesis argues that policies successfully implemented in culturally proximal contexts are more likely to lead to similar results in the receiving context. The results of the quantitative analysis indicate a strong relationship between administrative efficiency and innovation performance in low-middle income countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The performance of organisational schemes supporting innovation in the national innovation systems of Egypt and Morocco is qualitatively assessed on the basis of 72 face-to-face interviews with entrepreneurs, policy makers and academics. The research finds that similar organisational schemes have produced similar results in the two case studies, confirming the working hypothesis and supporting an approach to policy transfer based on “relevant” good practice.