AGRICOLA IND 90019481, Technical change is dynamic, recursive, and endogenous to the economic system. However, empirical studies usually treat technology as exogenous, defining technical change in terms of its end result: changes in some production possibilities set. An endogenous view of technical change is necessary to understand, anticipate, and perhaps alter the development and use of new technologies and their associated problems. This article outlines a conceptual framework in which technical change is endogenous. The framework accounts for the dynamic and recursive interactions between research and development activities, the adoption and diffusion of new innovations, and the regulatory and institutional environment. As an example, the development of glyphosate-tolerant crops is discussed to show how the framework can be used to identify, organize, and understand the important variables and relationships for a specific case of technical change.
United States: Troy, Ohio: North American Association for Environmental Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 53 Document Number: D08989
Notes:
James E. Grunig Collection, Pages 50-82 in L. A. Grunig (ed.), Environmental activism revisited: the changing nature of communication through organizational public relations, special interest groups and the mass media.
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Paper No. TA-25007; AGRICOLA IND 90017245, Agricultural lenders have a stake in and are in a position to influence their borrowers' management decisions. Risk management practice adoption is an area in which lenders might want to exercise this influence. This study employs logistic statistical models to estimate lenders' influence on crop producers decisions regarding use of three alternative risk management practices: federal multiple-peril crop insurance, crop hail and fire insurance, and forward contracting. Results suggest lenders can exert significant influence on these decisions but that poor communication between lenders and borrowers likely reduces this influence.
Edwards, M. L. (author / Agricultural Resource Specialist, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1989
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06723
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AGRICOLA IND 90015083, In: J.R. Barrett and D.D. Jones, eds. Knowledge engineering in agriculture. St. Joseph, MI : American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1989. p. 181-191.
Leonard, Robert L. (author) and Wadsworth, James J. (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D06762
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Research Report No. 4, Food Marketing Policy Center, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs. 25 pages.
Gallagher, Thomas (author), Noland, Laura J. (author), and Noland: B.S. Recipient, Division of Resource Management, School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; Gallagher: Assistant Professor of Land Planning, Division of Resource Management, School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05382
