TY - JOUR T1 - Technology transfer: Institutions, models, and impacts on agriculture and rural life in the developing world JF - Agriculture and Human Values Y1 - 1988 A1 - Joseph J. Molnar A1 - Curtis M. Jolly KW - community development KW - farming systems KW - rural development KW - technology transfer KW - transfer effort AB - Technology transfer is a multi-level process of communication involving a variety of senders and receivers of ideas and materials. As a response to market failure, or as an effort to accelerate market-driven social change, technology transfer may combine public and private aparatus or rely solely on public institutional mechanisms to identify, develop, and deliver innovations and information. Technology transfer institutions include universities, government ministries, research institutes, and what may be termed the 'project sector'. Four farm- and village-level change models are considered: traditional community development, adoption-diffusion, training and Visit Extension, and Farming Systems Research. The challenges to technology transfer efforts center on developing indigenous capacity to generate and adapt agricultural technology to local conditions. This is the primary objective of technology transfer in agriculture and the basis for advancing rural development. VL - 5 UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02217173 IS - 1-2 N1 - This article from Agriculture and Human Values, 5 (1-2) listed independently. U1 - Agric Hum Values JO - Technology transfer ER -