The availability of large-scale medical equipment such as computed tomography (CT), magnet resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanners has increased rapidly worldwide over the last decades. Among OECD countries, Germany ranks high according to the number of imaging...

The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture (zero tillage, mulching and crop rotation)are described, reviewed and modelled. The economics are defined broadly to include not just shortterm financial benefits and costs, but also the whole-farm management context, constraints on key...

"In light of an increasing focus on new demand-driven extension approaches that aim at accelerating the adoption of innovative technologies by smallholder farmers in developing countries, greater analysis is needed of the role of rural social networks and their impact on technology adoption....

The theoretical literature on technological competition has been mostly concerned with various aspects of innovative activity in a single market. By contrast, this paper studies the adoption of a sequence of product innovations in two markets characterized by a common technology base, and...

In this paper we carry out a comparison among two versions of the model of acceptance of the technology, generally known by its acronyms TAM, by means of the utilization of two differentestimation procedures families inside the methodology of the structural equations: the structures of...

In general, the use of incentive payments to landholders in environmental programs is poorly thought through. This article discusses situations where environmental incentive payments are more likely to be a cost-effective response by environmental funders. It is proposed that incentives can be...

En el presente trabajo se realiza una comparación entre dos versiones del modelo de aceptación de la tecnología, generalmente conocido por sus siglas TAM, mediante la utilización de dos familias de procedimientos de estimación diferentes dentro de la metodología de las ecuaciones...