Innovation Complexity in AgTech: The case of Brazil, Kenya and the United States of America?

Intan Hamdan-Livramento, Gregory D. Graff and Alica Daly

No 82, WIPO Economic Research Working Papers from World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division

Abstract: This paper illustrates successful policies and incentives that build on local innovation capabilities across three agricultural innovation hubs at different income levels and across different geographical regions. It makes the case for how countries highly complex innovation ecosystems, which refer to the diversity and sophistication of local innovators and the types of innovation they produce, tend to have more opportunities to shift their technological path to the frontier. The paper focuses on three agricultural hubs across different income levels and geography to illustrate how smart policies that focus on building local capabilities can help countries diversify and create their own agricultural technological paths. These hubs include: São Paulo in Brazil, Nairobi in Kenya and Colorado in the United States of America.

Keywords: Agriculture; Innovation complexity; Technologies; Intellectual property (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O14 O25 O30 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04
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