Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Clark, Norman
Author-Email: n.g.clark@strath.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Strathclyde, Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Title: Innovation Systems, Institutional Change and the New Knowledge Market: Implications
	 for Third World Agricultural Development
Abstract: This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve
	 understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing
	 countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples
	 drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper
	 suggests that such an analytical approach focuses attention directly on the types
	 of institutional reforms necessary to improve the effectiveness of Third World
	 agricultural R&D. Contrast is made with more conventional approaches that take
	 institutional structures as given and focus more on factors such as price regimes,
	 policy weaknesses and political will. The paper argues that so great now are the
	 problems in this area (particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa) that there is a clear
	 need for institutional reform to accompany relevant technological changes. In the
	 absence of such reform innovative (and hence economic) potential is likely to be
	 compromised
Keywords: Institutional, Innovation, Agriculture, Development, Knowledge
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2001
Number: 10
File-URL: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2001-10.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 257 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200110