Engel, Paul (author), Kaimowitz, David (author), Snyder, Monteze (author), and Research fellow, ISNAR; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL; Assistant Professor of Extension, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 81 Document Number: C04781
Notes:
In: Kaimowitz, David. ed. Making the link : agricultural research and technology transfer in developing countries. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1990. p. 227-269
AGRICOLA IND 92034694, The cooperative extension system in American agriculture is widely viewed as the paradigmatic public sector technology transfer system. Empirical evidence supports the view that research and extension are complementary inputs in increasing agricultural productivity. Cooperative extension, however, does not perceive itself as a technology transfer system; but as an informal education system. Many participants at the federal, land grant university, or county levels in cooperative extension would not recognize their work within a technology transfer framework. Moreover, many would object to such a characterization of their work. The differences in perspective is accounted for, in part, by the fact that agricultural extension is part of the larger system of cooperative extension. This system, which encompasses agriculture, home economics, 4-H and community and rural development, requires a more encompassing framework than technology transfer to provide an integrated rationale for its program elements. Within the technology transfer framework, the roles of the different components of the system across the states are both highly variable and changing. Based on site interviews in nine states, analysis is presented of the current and prospective roles of extension specialists and county agents. (original)
Meyers, J.M. (author / Associate Director, Cooperative Extension, University of California, Berkeley, CA)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06829
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 92028468; In the series analytic: Technology transfer to commercialization / compiled by W. Seden and S. Taper, Meeting held June 1985, San Francisco, California., In: International Symposium Proceedings. Los Angeles, CA : Technology Transfer Society. 1985. p. 184-199.
