Research and technology policies in innovation systems: zero tillage in Brazil

Ekboir, Javier M.

doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(02)00058-6

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“…La seconde consiste à ne réaliser aucun travail du sol, même superficiel, en se contentant de réaliser un semis permettant d'implanter directement, comme son nom l'indique, les graines des cultures dans le sol. La technique du semis direct a été mise au point dans les années 1970 sur le continent américain, aux États-Unis puis au Brésil, au travers de collaborations entre des agriculteurs, des agents des structures étatiques de recherche et de développement agricole, et des firmes privées de l'agrofourniture (Coughenour, 2003 ;Ekboir, 2003). L'enjeu n'était alors pas seulement économique, mais également écologique : dans ces pays, les travaux intensifs du sol ont provoqué de graves problèmes d'érosion des sols (5), que les pouvoirs publics ont tenté de limiter en faisant la promotion…”

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L'innovation par retrait. Contribution à une sociologie du détachement

Goulet

Vinck

2012

Revue Française De Sociologie

126

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L’article analyse les processus d’innovation au travers de leurs mécanismes de dissociation et de détachement, en complément des associations documentées par la sociologie de la traduction. Il traite pour cela des innovations dites « par retrait », dont l’une des particularités est d’être justement fondées sur la réduction d’une pratique ou le retrait d’un artefact donné. À partir du cas du passage aux techniques agricoles sans labour, il met en évidence quatre grands mécanismes constitutifs de la dissociation : l’association centrifuge, la mise en visibilité d’entités et d’associations, la mise en invisibilité d’autres entités et associations, et l’association de nouvelles entités. Il contribue ainsi à affiner la compréhension des processus de détachement à l’œuvre dans la plupart des innovations. Sur le cas du terrain qui nous occupe, il éclaire les déplacements qui s’opèrent entre instituts publics de recherche, industriels et citoyens dans la recherche de nouveaux modèles de production agricole.

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L'innovation par retrait. Contribution à une sociologie du détachement

Goulet

Vinck

2012

Revue Française De Sociologie

126

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“…Application of complete CA packages is rarely observed outside South America (Ekboir, 2003;Derpsch, 2008;Bollinger et al, 2006) and is difficult to achieve right from the onset of CA promotion. Farmers who are willing to follow the path to more sustainable agriculture usually embark on a long journey consisting of consecutive phases, each characterised by the use of specific practices that increasingly incorporate the three principles of CA .…”

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The Intensity of adoption of Conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe

Pedzisa

Rugube

Winter‐Nelson

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This article assesses the intensity of technology adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) techniques by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. It seeks to understand the drivers of CA adoption intensity in terms of the number of practices implemented using count data analysis. On average, the farmers in our sample adopt five out of 2 eight possible CA practices while only 7.4% use all eight practices in any one year. Practices such as digging planting basins (81.9%), applying manure (73.2%) and timely post-planting weeding (70.1%) are relatively popular, while adoption of crop rotation (22.8%) is comparatively rare. Productivity is positively correlated to the number of techniques used. Farmers adopting all the CA practices are the most productive, with an estimated maize yield of 2.50 tons/ha, compared with a yield of less than 1 tons/ha for those using three techniques or fewer. Results from a Poisson regression indicate that education, agro-ecology, non-governmental input support and extension support have a significant impact on adoption intensity. Subsidised inputs increase the number of components used, although access to those inputs was uneven across regions of Zimbabwe. Further, the number of CA components used in the previous season positively impacts current season adoption intensity, implying that promotions of CA technologies do have a persistent effect, even after those promotions end.

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“…Antoncic and Hisrich (2001), by contrast, suggest that many successful firms look within the organization, rather than outside or beyond it, in a process they term intrapreneurship-innovation comes from within, rather than without. Other research has demonstrated the attractiveness of a "linear" model of innovation and development that suggests that the process focuses exclusively on technology, beginning with basic research before moving to applied research (Godin 2006;Ekboir 2003;Hounshell 2004;Gustin 1999). Market development and consumer acceptance must come later, after the technology's utility has been demonstrated.…”

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Navigating the “paradox of openness” in energy and transport innovation: Insights from eight corporate clean technology research and development case studies

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Abstract:Using an inductive case study approach drawn from original interview data, this article investigates the innovation approaches among a sample of international energy companies, or corporate firms. It first presents a conceptual framework synthesized from the business studies, entrepreneurship, evolutionary economics, innovation studies, management science, organization studies, political science, and sociology literature. This framework suggests that corporate approaches to clean technology innovation will cut across the four dimensions of organizational multiplicity and stakeholder involvement, information sharing, coordination and control, and market orientation. It then explores how eight firms-the Algal Carbon Conversion Flagship and Aurora Algae (biofuel), DONG and Statoil (carbon capture and storage), Tesla and Volkswagen (electric vehicles), and Siemens and Vestas (offshore wind turbines)-approach clean technology development with "open innovation" attributes mixed with "closed" attributes. Although the study finds striking similarities among the particular approaches embraced by each corporate actor, it also notes that approaches are technology and firm specific, and the potential for different permutations leads to an almost endless number of possible stylistic combinations. The innovation profiles depicted also reveal conflict and competition among various stakeholders, the implication being that corporate innovation in the energy sector remains a conflicted, disjointed, and messy process.

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Research and technology policies in innovation systems: zero tillage in Brazil

Cited by 110 publications

References 2 publications

L'innovation par retrait. Contribution à une sociologie du détachement

L'innovation par retrait. Contribution à une sociologie du détachement

The Intensity of adoption of Conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe

Navigating the “paradox of openness” in energy and transport innovation: Insights from eight corporate clean technology research and development case studies

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