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.
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.
Explores the interrationships between the interdisciplinary specialties of the diffusion of innovations and technology transfer, using bibliometric methods.
Gould, Brian W. (author), Klemme, Richard M. (author), Saupe, William E. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989-05
Published:
USA: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05803
Love, John M. (author / Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989-09
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06724
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 90011273; Contains Abstract only, Ithaca, NY : Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1989. 28 p. (Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 89-32)
Reichelderfer, Katherine H. (author / Associate Director, Resources and Technology Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05385
Chambers, Robert (author), Pacey, Arnold (author), and Thrupp, Lori Ann, eds. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 80 Document Number: C04646
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Includes Contents, Preface and Introduction only, 218 pages; London, UK : Intermediate Technology Publications, 1989. 218 p.
