Evaluating the impact of social networks in rural innovation systems: An overview

Ira Matuschke

No 816, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: "In light of an increasing focus on new demand-driven extension approaches that aim at accelerating the adoption of innovative technologies by smallholder farmers in developing countries, greater analysis is needed of the role of rural social networks and their impact on technology adoption. This paper contributes to this topic by reviewing selected studies on rural social networks and by outlining a research approach that combines social network analysis with econometric estimation techniques in one coherent framework to strengthen the study of technology adoption by smallholders. If applied, such a framework could help establish which network characteristics have the greatest impact on technology uptake, thereby lending support to and improving the design of new extension approaches." from authors' abstract

Keywords: Social network analysis; econometric modeling; adoption of innovations; farmer-to-farmer knowledge transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-knm, nep-net and nep-soc
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