Heterogeneous incentives for innovation adoption: The price effect on segmented markets

Bonjean, Isabelle

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101741

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“…However, unlike in the previous two phases, wherein the absence of causality (causal scenario 0) was the second most observed causal possibility, the second most observed causal scenario (12% of studies) in the expansion phase is that inequality negatively impacts innovation (causal scenario IV) (e.g., Vona and Patriarca, 2011;Hatipoglu, 2012;Otioma et al, 2019;Hilbert, 2010). The remaining studies (16%) find that inequality benefits innovation (causal scenario II) (e.g., Hyytinen and Toivanen, 2011;Tselios, 2011) or that innovation lessens inequality (causal scenario III) (e.g., Dell'Anno and Solomon, 2014;Antonelli and Gehringer, 2017;Shahabadi et al, 2017), while only 5% indicate that there is no significant causality between innovation and inequality (causal scenario 0) (e.g., Ding et al, 2011;Bonjean, 2019;Croce and Ghignoni, 2020).…”

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Three decades of research on innovation and inequality: Causal scenarios, explanatory factors and suggestions

Fragkandreas¹

2022

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Prompted by rising income inequality (in short, inequality) in advanced economies, a rapidly growing number of studies across various fields and disciplines of social science have, since the 1990s, sought to find out how innovation (as the main engine of economic progress) affects the distribution of income in modern-day capitalist societies. Using the systematic literature review method, this paper provides the first critical review of 166 studies on innovation and inequality published in 114 journals in the last three decades (1990–2019). It is shown that, while the great majority of studies under review concur that innovation induces inequality, this finding is subject to the disciplinary origins of research (e.g., development studies, economics, geography, innovation studies, etc.) and the country under investigation. Furthermore, guided by an original causally holistic analytical framework, the analysis demonstrates that the relationship between innovation and inequality is significantly more causally complex than the most popular theoretical perspective (i.e., skill-biased technological change account) has let us believe; in particular, it is subject to five causal scenarios and a range of explanatory factors (i.e., skill premiums, technological unemployment, international trade, declining union membership, spatial aspects, changing employment conditions, policy, horizontal inequalities, sectoral composition and types of innovation). The paper ends by discussing findings, policy implications and knowledge gaps, one of which concerns the following under-researched question: how, and under what conditions do publicly funded innovation policies reduce (or increase) inequality?

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Three decades of research on innovation and inequality: Causal scenarios, explanatory factors and suggestions

Fragkandreas¹

2022

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“…Swinnen & Kuijpers, 2019) and contract farming has been identified as an effective governance mechanism to support farmers' practice adoption (e.g. Bonjean, 2019;Mazhar et al, 2021;Mulwa et al, 2021), which makes it a promising candidate to support crop diversification. However, contract farming has not yet been tested in relation to crop diversification, and there is no blue print when it comes to designing governance mechanisms for practice adoption (Meynard et al, 2017;Pancino et al, 2019;Swinnen & Kuijpers, 2019).…”

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“…Empirically, several examples have started to illustrate the complex relationship, particularly between CF and farmers' adoption of new practices (e.g. Bonjean, 2019;Mazhar et al, 2021;Mulwa et al, 2021). However, these studies largely focus on cases in emerging economies.…”

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Crop up! : adoption and value chain organisation in crop diversification transitions

Weituschat¹

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Dedicated to my family, the one I was born into and the one I gained along the way.You give me hope that we can do better.First of all, I would like to thank my daily supervisors, Stefano Pascucci and Valentina Cristiana Materia, for their endless advice, constructive criticism and contributions. You have been extraordinarily supportive, both scientifically and personally. I would also like to thank my promotor Jacques Trienekens for being the calm, steady hand guiding us through a tumultuous process. More of my gratitude goes to Peter Tamas for being my most (entertainingly) critical advisor. You made me a better scientist, while constantly making me laugh through our cynicism. Thanks also go to Ruth de Jong who not only contributed to the data collection but who was also a great sparring partner to me. Finally, I would also like to thank Ardinesh Kambanje, Alice Bischof, and all my other fellow BMO PhDs, with whom I have shared an office, a corridor and many inspiring conversations, and Mufty Hasanov for the inspiration for this book's title. However, while my work was supported by many in an academic sense, a PhD is not a purely academic endeavour. The support I have received in my personal life was at least equally important. I would not have made it through this process if it weren't for my family, both old and new. Firstly, I need to thank Percy Cicilia Jr. You were always there for me, through the hardest and the best of times. Your friendship of more than a decade made this possible. I also want to thank Maddy Young and Kiki Cappello for being my dearest friends these past years. The three of you, alongside many other friends and the Wageningen salsa community, kept me sane throughout this process. Finally, I thank my parents, Burkhard and Valérie, for endlessly supporting me and believing in me, and my sister Lea for keeping my feet firmly planted on the ground. Lastly, I would like to thank my lovely niece Ida for reminding me why this work matters and what we are fighting for. Policy and practice-oriented implications 2. Goal frames and sustainability transitions: How cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Sustainability transitions and lock-ins 2.3 Conceptual framework 2.4 Data and methodology 2.5 Findings 2.6 Discussion 2.7 Conclusions Appendix 2.1: Farmer overview 3. Understanding the role of value chain formation in the scaling of crop diversification practices 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conceptual framework 3.3 Materials and methods 3.4 Findings 3.5 Discussion 3.6 Conclusions Appendix 3.1: Case study descriptions 4. Can contract farming support sustainable intensification in agri-food value chains? 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The role of contract farming in the adoption of sustainable intensification practices 4.3 Study context and methods 4.4 Results 4.5 Discussion 4.6 Conclusion Appendix 4.1: Sampling Appendix 4.2: Attitudinal scales 5. Discussion and conclusion 5.1 Summary of results 5.2 Synthesis and conceptual reflections in the context of adoption and transition research ...

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“…As much as social capital has the potential to overcome extension inefficiencies by effectively disseminating information about the product benefits , the effect of social capital on adoption can depend on the risks involved and the effort required for the investment. Bonjean (2019) argues that individual utility function is a profit function that is positively correlated with production and negatively with effort. As such, farmer's utility is strictly proportional to the increase in quantity produced (no scale economies).…”

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“…If governments directly intervene in inputs markets through supply of subsidized inputs, there is a risk that the inputs do not arrive in time, in good quality, or in sufficient quantities (Dorward, 2009). Problems of timely delivery of modern inputs is seen as the most decisive hurdle to the diffusion of innovations (Bonjean 2019). It is therefore important to examine whether social capital influences adoption of subsidized inputs, assuming that farmers would adopt these farm technologies only if they arrive in time and in good quality at least, otherwise they are of little use to farmers.…”

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The long walk to economic freedom: smallholder farmers’ access to technology and capital

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Having worked in the private sector and NGOs for some years prior to starting my PhD, I was greatly surprised to what extent the joint efforts of multilateral organisations, international governments, NGOs and private sector efforts are not enough to help Africa's smallholder farmers produce the right crops in optimal quantities, and more importantly, to make enough income through farming to sustain themselves beyond the minimum income of $US1.25 per day. A great majority of African farmers are still smallholders, despite the evident lack of scale economies. Exploitation of the continent's resources by the rest of the world persists, given our inability to cultivate oil palm, coffee or cocoa in the Northern hemisphere; yet the added value of production of raw materials for farmers remains fundamentally unrewarding. Much of today's farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are oppressed by unregulated capitalism and failing institutions which are not able to form the kind of welfare states that we enjoy in the Northern hemisphere.The aim of this thesis is to assess to what extent farmers can bypass dysfunctional institutions and enhance welfare by getting access to technology and capital. As we will see, access to these assets is necessary to help farmers optimize farm productivity and give them a choice -independence and freedom -of what they produce, what they sell and to whom, who they borrow from etc. The title of this thesis was inspired by Mandela's book "The Long Walk to Freedom", an autobiography which stands as a symbol of fight against apartheid and colonialism, a life-long battle to liberate the oppressed from the oppressor.The main question my thesis aims to address is this: can access to technology and capital bypass failing states and help alleviate farmers out of poverty? Before explaining how access to technology and capital can help farmers on the road to freedom, I will briefly elaborate on why inefficient institutions keep African farmers in a vicious circle of poverty. Problem statement: Implications of poor institutions in AfricaA common justification of poverty across farmlands in Africa are poor institutions (North, 1989, Acemoglu et al, 2005, which are arguably a result of poor management of resources, red tape, persistent corruption, conflict, etc. Part of the problem in post-colonial Africa are traditional pluralistic societies and political objectives which combine religions and kinship on the one hand and economic demands of modern democracies on the other hand (Skalnik 2013). Locally segmented governments struggle with a barrier between modern and traditional Africa, where the latter is largely dominated ritual, religious, economic and kinship limitations (see a broad review of relevant literature provided in Skalnik, 2013, p. 111). Levcenko (2007) argues that strong institutions enhance contract enforcement, property rights and shareholder protection. On the other hand, countries with weak institutions suffer from incomplete contracts and higher transaction costs of doing business. Poor instit...

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Heterogeneous incentives for innovation adoption: The price effect on segmented markets

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Three decades of research on innovation and inequality: Causal scenarios, explanatory factors and suggestions

Three decades of research on innovation and inequality: Causal scenarios, explanatory factors and suggestions

Crop up! : adoption and value chain organisation in crop diversification transitions

The long walk to economic freedom: smallholder farmers’ access to technology and capital

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