NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS: ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION

The Business History of New Technologies

This special issue draws together a number of articles linked to the theme of the business history of new technologies. All of them were submitted to the Business History Review in the normal course of operations, but they are grouped together here because of their common concerns and interlinkages. The articles cover numerous wide-ranging issues, but it may be particularly worthwhile to point ...

New Business Creation and Russian Economic Recovery

Economic Evaluation of Agricultural Research in Australia and New Zealand

State governments and the Commonwealth are pursuing policies to focus research and development (R&D) resources on high priority areas and to improve the effectiveness of R&D delivery. An important aspect of improving the allocation of research resources is the establishment of an efficient system for evaluating the impact of completed research (ex-post studies) and assessing the likely returns ...

Information Communication Technologies in Agricultural Extension Delivery of Agricultural Transformation Agenda

  The study examined the role of information communication technologies in extension delivery of Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) of Nigeria.  The objectives were to: examine the agricultural extension delivery of ATA; identify ICTs relevant in agricultural extension and application of ATA; examine roles of ICTs in extension of ATA and identify constraints to the use of ICTs in extensio...

Economic Justification of sErvicE-oriEntEd architEcturE