東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Three Essays on Innovation: Optimal ...

Fang, Di.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Three Essays on Innovation: Optimal Licensing Strategies, New Variety Adoption, and Consumer Preference in a Peer Network.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three Essays on Innovation: Optimal Licensing Strategies, New Variety Adoption, and Consumer Preference in a Peer Network./
Author:	Fang, Di.
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04A(E).
Subject:	Agricultural economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3737078
ISBN:	9781339261959

Three Essays on Innovation: Optimal Licensing Strategies, New Variety Adoption, and Consumer Preference in a Peer Network.
Fang, Di.

Three Essays on Innovation: Optimal Licensing Strategies, New Variety Adoption, and Consumer Preference in a Peer Network. - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2015.

It is well understood that innovation drives productivity growth in agriculture. Innovation, however, is a process that involves activities distributed throughout the supply chain. In this dissertation I investigate three topics that are at the core of the distribution and diffusion of innovation: optimal licensing of university-based inventions, new variety adoption among farmers, and consumers' choice of new products within a social network environment.

ISBN: 9781339261959Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172150
Agricultural economics.

Three Essays on Innovation: Optimal Licensing Strategies, New Variety Adoption, and Consumer Preference in a Peer Network.
LDR:03321nmm a2200325 4500 001 2072862
005 20160822133538.5
008 170521s2015 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781339261959
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3737078
035 $a AAI3737078
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Fang, Di. $3 3188085
245 1 0 $a Three Essays on Innovation: Optimal Licensing Strategies, New Variety Adoption, and Consumer Preference in a Peer Network.
300 $a 216 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Timothy J. Richards.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2015.
520 $a It is well understood that innovation drives productivity growth in agriculture. Innovation, however, is a process that involves activities distributed throughout the supply chain. In this dissertation I investigate three topics that are at the core of the distribution and diffusion of innovation: optimal licensing of university-based inventions, new variety adoption among farmers, and consumers' choice of new products within a social network environment.
520 $a University researchers assume an important role in innovation, particularly as a result of the Bayh-Dole Act, which allowed universities to license inventions funded by federal research dollars, to private industry. Aligning the incentives to innovate at the university level with the incentives to adopt downstream, I show that non-exclusive licensing is preferred under both fixed fee and royalty licensing. Finding support for non-exclusive licensing is important as it provides evidence that the concept underlying the Bayh-Dole Act has economic merit, namely that the goals of university-based researchers are consistent with those of society, and taxpayers, in general.
520 $a After licensing, new products enter the diffusion process. Using a case study of small holders in Mozambique, I observe substantial geographic clustering of new-variety adoption decisions. Controlling for the other potential factors, I find that information diffusion through space is largely responsible for variation in adoption. As predicted by a social learning model, spatial effects are not based on geographic distance, but rather on neighbor-relationships that follow from information exchange. My findings are consistent with others who find information to be the primary barrier to adoption, and means that adoption can be accelerated by improving information exchange among farmers.
520 $a Ultimately, innovation is only useful when adopted by end consumers. Consumers' choices of new products are determined by many factors such as personal preferences, the attributes of the products, and more importantly, peer recommendations. My experimental data shows that peers are indeed important, but "weak ties" or information from friends-of-friends is more important than close friends. Further, others regarded as experts in the subject matter exert the strongest influence on peer choices.
590 $a School code: 0010.
650 4 $a Agricultural economics. $3 3172150
650 4 $a Marketing. $3 536353
650 4 $a Business administration. $3 3168311
690 $a 0503
690 $a 0338
690 $a 0310
710 2 $a Arizona State University. $b Business Administration. $3 1679662
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 77-04A(E).
790 $a 0010
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2015
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3737078