New challenges for public research organisations in agricultural innovation in developing economies: Evidence from Embrapa in Brazil's soybean industry
Summary. Brazil's agricultural research organization Embrapa possesses diverse technological capabilities for soybean innovation, varying in novelty and complexity across different technologies and distributed across multiple units. The paper argues that as global food demand rises and innovation becomes increasingly interdependent, indigenous public research organizations like Embrapa must fundamentally reorganize how they manage these capabilities to better support agricultural innovation and productivity growth in developing economies.
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Figueiredo, P. N.. (2016). New challenges for public research organisations in agricultural innovation in developing economies: Evidence from Embrapa in Brazil's soybean industry. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.011
Figueiredo, Paulo N.. “New challenges for public research organisations in agricultural innovation in developing economies: Evidence from Embrapa in Brazil's soybean industry.” The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.011.
Figueiredo, Paulo N.. 2016. “New challenges for public research organisations in agricultural innovation in developing economies: Evidence from Embrapa in Brazil's soybean industry.” The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.011.
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title = {New challenges for public research organisations in agricultural innovation in developing economies: Evidence from Embrapa in Brazil's soybean industry},
author = {Paulo N. Figueiredo},
journal = {The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.011},
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- 10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.011
- Countries
- Brazil
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- agtech, innovation-networks, regional-innovation-systems
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- 2026-04-28