In the context of FAO's Global Action (GA) on Green Development of Special Agro-Products (SAPs), themed as “One Country – One Priority Product” (OCOP), given that OCOP shares similar philosophy as the One Village One Product (OVOP) movement and taking advantages of the rich experiences of OVOP and advances made by Asian countries, especially Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)'s support in many OVOP projects around the world, this publication presents an overview of the OVOP movement globally and showcases how OVOP can boost rural economies and increase food security nutrition through the development of local products hence contributing to SDG 1, 2, and 10. Chapter I explains what OVOP is and how it has been disseminated outside Japan. Chapter II provides overview of JICA's support for OVOP. In Chapter III, JICA’s OVOP projects are analyzed in terms of their objectives, alignment to strategic policy framework, target population, products/services, governance structure and monitoring and evaluation. Chapter IV reviews the process and interventions taken in OVOP projects and identifies good practices.Chapter V lists success factors which are extracted from OVOP projects. FAO’s One Country–One Priority Product (OCOP) projects are encouraged to refer to them in their planning and implementation phases. Lastly, in Chapter VII, several implications and recommendations for OCOP are drawn from OVOP experiences of JICA.

Rural area with its products, community, and culture is important in globalization era. Its products are the main natural resources for human life. Besides, the uniqueness and the local wisdom of rural area has become a social resource in modern life. Rural has a key role to support sustainable development, develop human resource and improve the urban and regional area so that it is essential to learn more the innovations of the rural development. The 8th Rural Research and Planning Group (RRPG) International Conference is an international platform for specialists, experts and practitioners of rural development and planning group to discuss, share, and find new ideas and experiences and to find global partners for future collaboration. Moreover, participants contribute to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as innovation for rural development. The theme of the conference is “Innovations of the Rural Development for Implementing Sustainable Development” and it has 12 sub-themes, such as Sustainable Rural Development, Rural Governance and Policy, Sustainable Agriculture, Migration and Displacement, Rural Natural Resource Management and Spatial Information, Rural Tourism and Regional Development, Rural Planning and Infrastructure, Smart Village & Smart City Innovation and Development, Disaster & Community Resilience and Community Empowerment, Rural Land Management, Creative Kampongs for Economic Development. This proceeding consists is a collection of selected papers published on the 8th RRPG International Conference held on May, 17-18 2017.

Intellectual Property Branding in the Developing World identifies success stories in the areas of intellectual property (IP) and branding for non-technological innovation in the developing world. The author examines the relationship between IP, branding and innovation to demonstrate that innovation, in general, and non-technological innovation, in particular, must go hand in hand with branding. Branding of non-technological innovations should be a good strategic tool to be used by countries in the developing world mainly in the areas where they have competitive advantages. This book will assist scholars and academics dealing with innovation, branding, and IP issues, providing context and guidance to policymakers from the developing world. It is also relevant to researchers and students in the fields of intellectual property law, commercial law, international law, management, and innovation.

This book gathers selected papers from the 28th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Coventry, United Kingdom. While the theoretical and empirical papers presented cover diverse areas of economics and finance in various geographic regions, the main focus is on the latest research concerning the economics of innovation, finance and macroeconomics. The book also includes regional studies.

Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies have sustained economic growth from Britain's industrial revolution onwards. This volume revisits the role of industrial policy in the success of these strategies and what it can offer developed and developing economies today. Featuring essays from experts invested in the expansion of industrial policies, topics discussed include the most effective use of industrial policies in learning economies, development finance, and promoting investment in regional and global contexts. Also included are in-depth case studies of Japan and India's experience with industrial policy in the banking and private sector. One essay revisits the theoretical and conceptual foundations of industrial policy from a structural economics perspective and another describes the models, packages, and transformation cycles that constitute a variety of approaches to implementation. The collection concludes with industrial strategies for facilitating quality growth, realizing more sustainable manufacturing development, and encouraging countries to industrialize around their natural resources.

We are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the first edition of International Conference on Economic and Social Science (ICON-ESS) 2018. The technical program has brought researchers and practitioners around the world to a good forum for discussing, leveraging and developing all social scientific and economic aspects to provide the updated science and insight about the knowledge development. This conference acquired 58 full papers with 2 Categories paper with most paper are from Economic and Social Science and also authors from almost 5 Countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Australia and many more.