the social value of new technologies depends on how novel knowledge fuels practical solutions, we take an innovation … production of knowledge, (ii) technological innovation, and (iii) policy discussion. Taking as counterfactual scientific advances …

strongly supporting sustainable agriculture. We test regulatory measures aimed at protecting common environmental goods and …

/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago … century or two. This chapter reviews innovation and technical change in agriculture in this more-recent period, paying …

strongly supporting sustainable agriculture. We test regulatory measures aimed at protecting common environmental goods and …

innovation is an improvement of famers' efficiency, i.e. operating on the production frontier (typology scenario). The other … agriculture-focused through the following features: separate agriculture and non-agriculture labor markets, separate urban and …

R&D investments on productivity and on the induced innovation hypothesis for both inputs and outputs. The approach … builds on a non-parametric representation of the underlying technology. An application to U.S. agriculture is presented. By …