IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/ijimxx/v19y2015i02ns1363919615500267.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Feeding Of The Nine Billion — A Case For Technology Transfer In Agriculture

Author

Listed:
  • THOMAS WOLFGANG THURNER

    () (Research Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation)

  • STANISLAV ZAICHENKO

    () (Research Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Abstract

This paper studies technology creation and transfer of 95 Russian research and technology organisations (RTOs) into producer organisations in agriculture and mining. Previous findings suggested that in agriculture, the barriers for technology adaption are particularly high due to technological conservatism and the atomic structure of the industry. Although RTOs in agriculture publish more and register more patents, they struggle to translate their success into transfer activities. While technology transfer in mining goes well hand in hand with applied research, RTOs in agriculture either build on new technologies or generate revenues through ready-to-use services. The explanation for this rather short-term oriented demand for services of Russia's RTOs lies in the financial situation of client organisations. The vast majority complain about their dire lack of financial means to pay for new technologies. Consequently, agricultural producers do not generate enough revenues to pursue future opportunities, with far reaching consequences. The situation could get better if the RTOs and the client would agree to longer-lasting relationships.

Suggested Citation

  • Thomas Wolfgang Thurner & Stanislav Zaichenko, 2015. "The Feeding Of The Nine Billion — A Case For Technology Transfer In Agriculture," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(02), pages 1-26.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:19:y:2015:i:02:n:s1363919615500267
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919615500267
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1363919615500267
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Colin Wren, 2002. "Evaluating the effect of soft business support upon small firm performance," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 54(2), pages 334-365, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ilya Kuzminov & Pavel Bakhtin & Elena Khabirova & Maxim Kotsemir & Alina Lavrynenko, 2018. "Mapping the Radical Innovations in Food Industry: A Text Mining Study," HSE Working papers WP BRP 80/STI/2018, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    2. Ilya Kuzminov & Leonid Gokhberg & Thomas Thurner & Elena Khabirova, 2018. "The Current State of the Russian Agricultural Sector," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 17(1), pages 52-57, April.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Technology transfer; agriculture; mining; Russia;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:19:y:2015:i:02:n:s1363919615500267. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Tai Tone Lim). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijim/ijim.shtml .

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service hosted by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis . RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.