Agrarian Structure, Technological Innovations, and the State PDF Download

Author: Alain De Janvry
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Category : Technology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Author: Franz W. Gatzweiler
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319257188
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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The aim of the book is to present contributions in theory, policy and practice to the science and policy of sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The purpose of this book is to be a reference for students, scholars and practitioners inthe field of science and policy for understanding and identifying agricultural productivity growth potentials in marginalized areas.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170346
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested that the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council (NRC) convene a panel of experts to examine whether publicly funded agricultural research has influenced the structure of U.S. agriculture and, if so, how. The Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale operations.

Author: Ross Thomson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801896622
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. Ross Thomson's fresh study accounts for the unprecedented technological innovations that helped propel antebellum growth. Thomson argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries. Essential to this spread was a dense web of knowledge-diffusing institutions—new occupations and industries, the patent office, machine shops, mechanics’ associations, scientific societies, public colleges, and the civil engineering profession. Together they composed an integrated innovation system that generated, disseminated, and employed new technical knowledge across ever-widening ranges of the economy. To trace technological change in fourteen major industries and the economy as a whole, Thomson analyzes 14,000 patents, the records of two dozen machinery firms, census data for 1,800 companies, and hundreds of business directories. This exhaustive research leads to his interesting interpretation of technological diffusion and development. Thomson's impressive study of the infrastructure that fueled and supported the young country’s economic and industrial successes will interest students of economic, technological, and business history.

Author: Hrabrin Bachev
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Languages : en
Pages : 19

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This paper adapts the principles of the new developing New Institutional and Transaction Cost Economics (integrating Economics, Organization, Law, Political and Behavioral Sciences) to the area of agrarian research and innovations. The major institutional, behavioral, dimensional, technological and transaction costs factors for governing research and innovation activities are determined. The specific market, private, public and hybrid modes for organization of agrarian innovations are specified. The effective boundaries of different governing modes are assessed, and needs and forms for public intervention in agrarian research and innovation are clarified.

Author: Pennsylvania State University. Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Michael J Andrews
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681078X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 633

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"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations among experts in government and economic development. But while these areas on continue to attract public and private investments, many measurements of their resulting economic growth-including productivity growth and business dynamism-have remained modest. Why this difference? Because not all business sectors are the same, and the transformative gains of some industries have been offset by stagnation or contraction in others. Accordingly, a nuanced understanding of the economy requires a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, the latest entry in the NBER conference series, seeks to codify these answers. The editors leverage industry studies to identify specific examples of productivity improvements enabled by innovation and entrepreneurship, including those from new production technologies, increased competition, new organizational forms, and other means. Taken together, the volume illuminates whether the contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic growth is likely to be concentrated, be it selected sectors or more broadly"--

Author: Rajeswari S. Raina
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 8132239296
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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This book discusses the role of inclusive innovation for development in rural India. It uses the evidence of innovation in the context of skewed or limited livelihood options and multiple knowledge systems to argue that if inclusive innovation is to happen, the actors and the nature of the innovation system need reform. The book presents cases of substantive technological changes and institutional reforms enabling inclusive innovation in rural manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, health services, and the processes of technological learning in traditional informal networks, as well as in formal modern commodity markets. These cases offer lessons to enable learning and change within the state and formal science and technology (S&T) organizations. By focusing on these actors central to development economics and innovation systems framework, the book bridges the widening conceptual gaps between these two parallel knowledge domains, and offers options for action by several actors to enable inclusive innovation systems. The content is thus of value to a wide audience consisting of researchers, policy makers, NGOs and industry observers.

Author: George B. Frisvold
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Andra P. Thakur
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Category : Rice trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Abstract. This is a study in the anthropology of development dealing with the role of technological innovation in the process of agrarian change. The approach taken here will avoid crude technological determinism and adopt a dialectical view of technological and social change. In emphasizing the diffusion of ideas and technology from the developed to the underdeveloped world, many, if not most, analyses take into account only the external factors which lead to development while ignoring the internal ones, that is, this social, political and economic relation within the underdeveloped society which may impede or accelerate change. The specific focus of the study is the rice industry of Guyana. It will attempt an explanation of the practical social, economic and political problems involved in the acceptance and rejection of new tools and techniques used in the process of production. This involves a critique of the so-called demonstrator effect, which suggests that innovations are generally adopted only after use by community leaders. The process of development is thus reduced to the behaviour of a few community leaders. Case materials which contradict this notion will be presented in Chapter VIII. These materials will show that "necessity is the mother of invention" is somewhat reversed in Guyana, since new inventions and technological innovations generate even more necessities. In other words, modernization has led to increasing dependence of Guyana on the developed nations. Before independence in 1966, Guyana was the colony of British Guiana, and before that there were the colonies of Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo, belonging to the Dutch, French, and then to the British. Thus, Guyana has always been in a dependent relation as a colony of an imperial power. We may then ask to what extent the imperialist/colonial relationship motivated technological changes (the external factors) and to what extent the social, political and economic relations (the internal factors) of the colony hindered or accelerated these changes? Since there is no traditional, pre-modern or pre-capitalist (aboriginal societies excepted of course) state of affairs in Guyana, the process of agrarian change referred to above involves a transition from non- mechanized to mechanized technology in rice production--instead of a transition from traditional to modern agrarian society. This thesis is about the causes and effects of technological innovation in a particular sector of the economy of a dependent, underdeveloped and over-exploited nation on the periphery of the capitalist world system.