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This paper examines whether the welfare gains from technological innovation that reduces future abatement costs are … abatement costs, and the discount rate. We calculate the welfare gains from innovation under a variety of different scenarios …. Mostly they are less than the Pigouvian welfare gains. To be greater, innovation must reduce abatement costs substantially …
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Using the farm tractor as a case study, I show that lags in technology diffusion arise along two distinct margins, which I term scale and scope. Though tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much...
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explicit efforts to address policy and institutional change, despite its innovation systems rhetoric. This severely restricted … been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme …
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agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …
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explicit efforts to address policy and institutional change, despite its innovation systems rhetoric. This severely restricted … been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme …
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) programmes at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean is made. An account of the innovation …
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The major issues before Indian extension system are: how to improve the effectiveness of extension systems? How to serve the small land holders and marginal farmers in diversified farming systems? and proper allocation of fund, human resources and its management. The ATMA model has been...
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offshore methane hydrates. Prior to the discussions on public and private regulation, the study provides an introduction to … offshore methane hydrates. It attempts to summarize the potential commercial and welfare benefits that might be derived if … advantages of public regulation to govern the risks of accidents are presented. Third, a discussion reviews the potential …
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to in the regulation of transgenic plants for nearly a decade, no customary expectation of what actions either requires … suggests a way to rethink the regulation of transgenic plants that focuses on genuine uncertainty. Transgenic plants with …
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potential for financial venture capital or public policy to meaningfully reintroduce vigor in CET innovation have been … venture capital in funding innovation in clean energy, especially in light of the lessons learned over the past decade in the … innovation …
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