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How agricultural research systems shape a technological regime that develops genetic engineering but locks out agroecological innovations
Vanloqueren, Gaetan; Baret, Philippe V.
2009In Research Policy, 38 (6), p. 971 - 983
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Keywords :
Evolutionary economics; Lock-in; Path dependence; Technological trajectories; Transgenic plants; Strategy and Management; Management Science and Operations Research; Management of Technology and Innovation
Abstract :
[en] Agricultural science and technology (S&T) is under great scrutiny. Reorientation towards more holistic approaches, including agroecology, has recently been backed by a global international assessment of agriculture S&T for development (IAASTD). Understanding the past and current trends of agricultural S&T is crucial if such recommendations are to be implemented. This paper shows how the concepts of technological paradigms and trajectories can help analyse the agricultural S&T landscape and dynamics. Genetic engineering and agroecology can be usefully analysed as two different technological paradigms, even though they have not been equally successful in influencing agricultural research. We used a Systems of Innovation (SI) approach to identify the determinants of innovation (the factors that influence research choices) within agricultural research systems. The influence of each determinant is systematically described (e.g. funding priorities, scientists' cognitive and cultural routines etc.). As a result of their interactions, these determinants construct a technological regime and a lock-in situation that hinders the development of agroecological engineering. Issues linked to breaking out of this lock-in situation are finally discussed. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Disciplines :
Business & economic sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Vanloqueren, Gaetan ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège Research > HEC Liège Research: Social Enterprise and Collective Action for Transition (SECAT) ; Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Baret, Philippe V.;  Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Language :
English
Title :
How agricultural research systems shape a technological regime that develops genetic engineering but locks out agroecological innovations
Publication date :
July 2009
Journal title :
Research Policy
ISSN :
0048-7333
eISSN :
1873-7625
Publisher :
Elsevier BV
Volume :
38
Issue :
6
Pages :
971 - 983
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funding text :
The authors are grateful to Marco Bertaglia, Gauthier Chapelle, Felice Dassetto, Marc Mormont and Frederic Varone for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. The analysis and comments made here remain however our sole responsibility. We would also like to thank the editors and three anonymous reviewers for providing insights that helped to shape this article in its present form. Mélanie Braibant, Jasmina Fiasse and Séverine Goret respectively managed interviews in the sugar beet, maize and soybean agrifood chains. This research was conducted with the financial support of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FRIA).
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