Utterback, James M. (author / Center for Policy Alternatives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Center for Policy Alternatives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1975-09
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 37 Document Number: B04067
Explores the role of applied research institutes in the transfer of technology to developing countries. Several hypotheses about technological change in developed economies are extended to this context. Investigates 20 projects from four institutes in order to generalize the hypotheses. The conclusions are that projects, where significant resources are devoted to defining issues and market needs, providing for interpersonal contact and communication, and developing personnel through work in firms or applied laboratories in other countries, were most likely to produce useful results. Suggests that increased focus on these issues could have high leverage in expanding the importance of research institutes' activities both in generating and adapting technology and in transferring technology successfully.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 39 Document Number: B04477
Notes:
Hal R. Taylor Collection (abstract), Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Research Division, 1957. 51 p. (Research Bulletin 203)
Fliegel, Frederick C. (author / Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana) and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1969
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05151
Evans, cited reference, This study is concerned with inter-community differences in social organization as these may affect the success of agricultural change programs in a sample of 108 Indian villages. With knowledge of the sociology of the community in its present state, it is not surprising that a number of the operational hypotheses posed were not supported by the data. Among these were hypotheses concerning agrarian structure, occupational structure, and the expected negative role of factional and religious cleavages. Local availability of farm labor and capital, plus a proliferation of formal organizations favor change program success. Traditional and modern elements of community organization seem to be intertwined in the modernization of agriculture, indicating a need for more systematic sociological knowledge of the community. (original)
