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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Technology Transfer from Publicly Funded Research for Improved Water Management: Analysis and Australian Examples	
Autores: 	Tisdell,   Clement A.	
Data: 	2009-03-05	
Ano: 	1999	
Palavras-chave: 	Land and Water Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC); Water management; Technology transfer.; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.	
Resumo: 	Considerable public funding is provided for research and development intended to improve the management and use of shared natural resources, such as water.  In Australia the Land and Water Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC) and Environment Australia are significant providers of such funds.  These providers tend to judge the value of R &amp; D projects supported by them on the basis of whether or not significant technology transfer and adoption takes place.  Researchers involved in these projects and expected to be the prime movers of such transfer.  However, it seems that research funders have been guided by over simplified models of processes of technology transfer and by false analogies with the transfer of industrial technology.  There has been a failure to recognise that much of the new technology developed to improve the management of shared resources, such as water, affects the supply of social or collective commodities, a factor which materially alters the technology transfer process.  Here processes of transferring publicly-funded intellectual knowledge are discussed and modelled, dynamic patterns of adoption of new technology are considered along with factors influencing adoption rates and barriers to adoption, particularly when the supply of social or collective commodities such as water, are involved.  Some points from the analysis are illustrated by observations from a sample of LWRRDC-supported research projects.	
Tipo: 	Working or Discussion Paper	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	ISSN: 1327-8231

http://purl.umn.edu/47993	
Relação: 	University of Queensland&gt;School of Economics&gt;Economics, Ecology and Environment Working Papers

Economics, Ecology and the Environment Working Paper

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