Beyond Orthodoxy: Locking in to Genetic Uniformity

Dominic Hogg
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Chapter 4 in Technological Change in Agriculture, 2000, pp 111-142 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The theory of induced innovation discussed in Chapter 2 has received a good deal of criticism, much of it based on the fact that the mechanism by which change occurs is heavily market-oriented. Markets do not of themselves develop new techniques or technologies. Nor do they create organisations. They merely provide more or less good signposts, which are not always followed, as to the path which changes might follow if the aim is to guide change along the most financially efficient, or profitable, road given the available options. Commenting on induced innovation and its structuralist offspring, Biggs (1982, 209) comments: While agreeing with the structuralists about the need to analyse the influence of special interest groups on technology generation, neither theory looks inside and analyses the decision-making processes of institutions and people who generate new technologies and new R&D institutions and research methods.

Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Technological Change; Research Organisation; Problem Choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333981252_4

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