How ready-to-use therapeutic food shapes a new technological regime to treat child malnutrition

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1319-1327

  Guimón, José ^a   Guimón, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b El País ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Appropriate technology; Ethiopia; Haiti; Innovation; Malnutrition; Technological regimes; Technology diffusion; Therapeutic food

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES; ETHIOPIA; HAITI; MALNUTRITION; TECHNOLOGICAL REGIME; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

NUTRITION;

INNOVATION;

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY; CHILD HEALTH; FOOD; INNOVATION; MALNUTRITION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

ETHIOPIA; HAITI;

EID: 84863780166     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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