collective action and techno-institutional transformations: a study on some selected innovation systems

A Collective Action Model of Institutional Innovation

We introduce a collective action model of institutional innovation. This model, based on converging perspectives from the technology innovation management and social movements literature, views institutional change as a dialectical process in which partisan actors espousing conflicting views confront each other and engage in political behaviors to create and change institutions. The model repre...

Techno-nationalism and Meso Innovation Systems

Revised version of a paper presented at the Trinational Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability organized by the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology of Simon Fraser University and held at Whistler, B.C. on August 14-21 1994. This version is to be published in R. Anderson et al. National and Regional Innovation Systems in a Global Context: The North American ...

Institutional Change, Collective Action and Cooperation

Institutional change, collective action, and cooperation are closely related. The connection between institutional change and collective action comes from the fact that both democratic political institutions and norms of behavior are collectively chosen: they are the result of a collective action process. Collective action, however, requires a solution to the cooperation problem, for it is usua...

Institutional Collective Action and Local Goverance

Policy Networks and Institutional Collective Action: A Research Agenda

Agricultural Extension, Collective Action and Innovation Systems: Lessons on Network Brokering from Peru and Mexico

Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative value chain mapping methodology was used to explo...