INTERPAKS, Analyzes data from samples of cultivators in 84 agrarian communities in Andhra Pradesh, India. Finds little support for Cancian's theory that rank inhibits risk-taking. Considers the possibility that the status-trial relationships varied systematically across communities, with mixed results. While there were lower zero-order correlations between status and trial for cultivators in high resource, low inequality communities, analysis of interactions between community characteristics and individual level measures was not particularly informative.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05231
Notes:
INTERPAKS, Minneapolis, MN: Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, June 1973. (staff paper P73-16). 48 p., The design of a successful agricultural development strategy involves a unique combination of technical and institutional change. It involves technical innovations capable of generating substantial new income flows. It also involves an adaptive response on the part of cultural, political, and economic institutions to realize the growth potential opened up by the new technical opportunities. This paper attempts to show how the addition of an induces innovation perspective can enrich our understanding of the process of technology transfer in agricultural development. It also attempts to extend the induced innovation perspective to the process of institutional transfer.
INTERPAKS, An extensive review of articles, research, and case studies on innovation, adoption, the adopter's perception of the innovation, diffusion within a social system, and communication channels. The 468 item bibliography covers published works through December, 1966. Throughout, the main concepts in the various adoption/diffusion processes are linked with specific citations in the extensive bibliography.
