AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE:SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS

Authors

  • Mario Luiz Possas
  • Sergio Salles Filho
  • José Maria da Silveira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35977/0104-1096.cct1994.v11.9024

Abstract

This article purposes an interpretation of the process of technological innovation in agriculture. We begin with a criticism to the idea of agriculture as a particular environment in economic analysis. We argue that some dynamic concepts from Economics of Innovation, especially as seen by the evolutionary literature, can be used as an adequate theoretical reference to study innovation in agriculture. We then suggest an interpretation in terms of technological trajectories in order to explain the complexity of the technological regime in agriculture. Finally we discuss the present stage of transformation in this technological regime and the perspectives of the arising new trajectories.

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Published

1994-01-01

Issue

Vol. 11,n.1/3 - jan./dez.,(1994)

Section

Ensaios

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How to Cite

Possas, M. L., Filho, S. S., & Silveira, J. M. da. (1994). AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE:SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS. Science & Technology Journals, 11(1/3), 9-31. https://doi.org/10.35977/0104-1096.cct1994.v11.9024

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