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The technological trajectories of the agrochemical industry: Change and continuity

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  • Pierre-Benoit Joly
  • Stéphane Lemarié

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This article analyses recent technological change in the agrochemical industry. Using the concept of technological trajectories developed by evolutionary economists, it examines the coherence between the different characteristics of the research process and its environment in this sector. A distinction is made between the plant protection trajectory which has prevailed until now and the current emergence of a crop protection trajectory. For the time being it is only possible to consider two extreme forms of crop protection strategy, the first based on a ‘product package’, the second on ‘integrated pest management’ (IPM). The implications of these two forms of crop protection strategy, in terms of demand, appropriability and their cognitive frame, are discussed in detail. This leads to some sceptical conclusions concerning the incentives to, and the capabilities of, current pesticide leaders to develop innovations for IPM. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Pierre-Benoit Joly & Stéphane Lemarié, 2002. "The technological trajectories of the agrochemical industry: Change and continuity," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 29(4), pages 259-266, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:29:y:2002:i:4:p:259-266
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    1. Rica Joy Flor & Kry Chhay & Vichet Sorn & Harro Maat & Buyung Asmara Ratna Hadi, 2018. "The Technological Trajectory of Integrated Pest Management for Rice in Cambodia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-14, May.

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