Handbook of Agricultural Economics

Intro -- Handbook of Agricultural Economics -- Copyright -- Contents of the handbook -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 75: The economics of agricultural innovation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economics of agricultural innovation and technology policy -- 2.1. Private incentives through patents, prizes and precommitments -- 2.2. Institutional innovations for funding and performing agricultural R& -- D -- 2.3. Government failure -- 3. Agricultural innovation, productivity and the transformation of agriculture -- 3.1. Structural transformation of American agriculture -- 3.2. Off-farm innovations in the food supply chain -- 3.3. On-farm innovation and the U.S. farm productivity surge and slowdown -- 4. Broader dimensions of agricultural innovation -- 4.1. Agricultural outputs -- 4.2. Agricultural inputs -- 4.3. Input proportions and partial factor productivity -- 4.4. A slowdown in international agricultural productivity? -- 5. Investments in agricultural R& -- D -- 5.1. Global GERD versus AgGERD -- 5.2. Shifting public-private roles in R& -- D -- 5.3. Changing sources of finance for agricultural and food R& -- D -- 5.4. A reduction in productivity-oriented research -- 5.5. International agricultural research -- 6. Models of the size and distribution of research benefits -- 6.1. Foundations: The basic supply and demand framework -- 6.2. Extensions to the basic model -- 6.3. Attribution problems in models of research impacts -- 6.3.1. R& -- D Lag Models -- 6.3.2. Adoption Lags -- 6.3.3. Maintenance Research -- 6.3.4. Spatial Spillovers -- 7. Returns to agricultural R& -- D -- 7.1. Issues with metrics and measurements -- 7.2. Worldwide meta-evidence on rates of return -- 8. Political economy angles on underinvestment in agricultural R& -- D -- 9. Public policy problems and prospects -- 9.1. Policy perspectives.

Front cover; Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets; Copyright page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Contents of Volume 3; Part 1: Introduction; Overview; Part 2: Human Resources and Technology Mastery; Chapter 43. Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schoolingschooling and Nutrition; Chapter 44. Agricultural Extension; Part 3: Invention and Innovation.