Induced innovation and path dependence: A reassessment with respect to agricultural development and the environment

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-59

  Ruttan, Vernon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HISTORY; MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; INDUCED INNOVATION; INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT; PATH DEPENDENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; INDUCED INNOVATION; INNOVATION; MODELLING APPROACH; PATH DEPENDENCY; TECHNICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 0030235875     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1625(96)00055-8     Document Type: Article

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