problematical. Others acknowledge the current attempts of these policy-makers to find adequate scientific knowledge, and the … difficulties they encounter. These difficulties stem partly from the very content of knowledge produced by research. Could other … modes of production be more efficient? The status of the knowledge produced by these approaches is a subject of debate …

dominate the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion in the process that is called ‘interactive learning’. We examine how knowledge … distribution of knowledge diffusion. We will show how these factors can be classified as follow: (1) learning strategies adopted by … their relative initial levels of knowledge. We shall also attempt to single out the relative effect of each of the above …

.e. direct advice from extensionists). Finally, we emphasize that due to the modification of the knowledge production regime …&D activities of these extension services (i.e. knowledge base updating, database building, scientific experiments, etc.). …