Review of Vernon Ruttan, "Technology transfer, institutional transfer, and induced technical and institutional change in agricultural development." Prepared for the Agricultural Development Conference at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, May 1973.
26 pages., via online journal., This paper employs the patent data of four major genetically modified (GM) crops, soybeans, cotton, maize and rapeseed, to illustratee how the innovation of GM crop technology diffused and distributed globally over time. Data collected from the Derwent Innovation Index, were employed to construct country patent citation networks, from 1984 to 2015, and the results revealed that developed countries were early adopters, and the primary actors in the innovation of GM crop technology. Only seven developing countries appeared in the country citation network. Most developed countries were reluctant to apply GM crop technology for commercial cultivation. Private businesses stood out in the patent citation network. The early adoption and better performance of developed countries can be explained by the activities of large established private companies.
Brantley C. Billy (author / University of Missouri)
Format:
Thesis
Publication Date:
1958-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: C21040
Notes:
Contains Table of Contents, Ch. I: Introduction, and Ch. VII: Summary and Conclusions. Also includes summaries of chapters II, III, IV, V, VI., Organization: Graduate School, University of Missouri, Columbia. 269 pages
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25321
Notes:
Pages 249-278 in Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin (eds.), Decolonizing knowledge: from development to dialogue. Clarendon Press, Oxford, England. 398 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12856
Notes:
Chapter 4 in Anjan Kumar Banerji (ed.), Communication and development. Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 135 pages.
