Knowledge generation and technical change: institutional innovation in agriculture

Contents: Part I: Context and Analytical Principles. 1. Beyond the Endless Frontier: From the Land Grant to the Entrepreneurial University. 2. Generation and Commercialization of Knowledge: Trends, Implications, and Models for Public and Private Agricultural Research and Education. 3. Public Research/Private Alignments. 4. Challenges for Public Agricultural Research and Extension in A World of Proprietary Science and Technology. 5. Finance, Organization, and Impacts of U.S. Agricultural Research: Future Prospects. 6. Agricultural Knowledge Systems: Issues of Accountability. 7. Institutional Innovation in Natural Resource Management: A Conceptualization and Some Australian Examples. 8. Land-Grant/Industry Relationships and the Institutional Relations of Technological Innovation in Agriculture: Longitudinal Evidence from National Surveys of Agricultural Scientists. 9. Structure of Public-Private Knowledge Networks in Plant Biotechnology: An EU-US Comparison. 10. Offices of Technology Transfer: Privatizing University Innovations for Agriculture. 11. Origins of Public-Private Knowledge Flows and Current State-of-the-Art: Can Agriculture Learn from Industry. 12. Institutional Relations in Agricultural Information Systems. 13. Innovative Models of Technology Generation and Transfer: Lessons Learned from the South. 14. Whither Agricultural Extension Worldwide? Reforms and Prospects. 15. Agricultural Extension: Generic Challenges and the Ingredients for Solutions. Part III: Conclusion. 16. Institutional Dimensions of Knowledge System Design and Analysis.

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Main Author: 131968 Wolf, S.; Zilberman, D. (ed.)
Format: Texto biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: Boston Kulwer Academic Publishers 2001
Subjects:INNOVACIÓN, MODERNIZACION, ADOPCION DE INNOVACIONES, AGRICULTURA, CAMBIO TECNOLOGICO, TRANSFERENCIA DE TECNOLOGÍA,
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