Why promising technologies fail: the neglected role of user innovation during adoption ☆

By B. Douthwaite, J. Keatinge, J. Park. 2001

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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• FARMERS' PERCEPTION OF THE STRIGA PROBLEM AND ITS CONTROL IN NORTHERN NIGERIA (2004, background): “The real test of whether Striga control options are appropriate is whether farmers adapt and adopt them beyond the experimental plots (Douthwaite et al., 2001; Sumberg et al., 2003).”
• Lessons from nearly 20 years of Precision Agriculture research, development, and adoption as a guide to its appropriate application (2009, unknown): “1016/S0048-7333(00)00124-4 Evans T (1998) Mapping vineyard salinity using electromagnetic surveys. The Australian Grapegrower and Winemaker 415, 20–21. EveringhamY, JakkuE, Inmann-BamberG,ThorburnP,WebsterT,AttardS, Antony G (2006) Understanding the adoption of knowledge intensive technologies in th”
• Dynamics and distribution of public and private research and extension roles for technological innovation and diffusion: Case studies of the implementation and adaptation of precision farming technologies (2017, background): “Hence, studies have highlighted adaptation and learning processes as central to adoption, and learning support as a role for R&E actors (Douthwaite et al., 2001; Millar and Connell, 2010; Schut et al., 2015).”
• Shaping agricultural innovation systems responsive to food insecurity and climate change (2011, background): “Management cannot be wrapped in the seed or left as an add-on to already " finished " technologies (cf. Douthwaite et al. 2001) although large-scale, GR-style breeding initiatives now underway in SSA perpetuate such assumptions.”
• Information networks that generate economic value: a study on clusters of adopters of new or improved technologies and practices among oil palm growers in Mexico. (2015, background): “…may still require further adaptation to improve fit with the farming system or adjustment of the institutional context in which it will be embedded, or complemented with farmer-generated innovations (Douthwaite et al., 2001; Garb and Friedlander, 2014; Millar and Connell, 2009; Novo et al., 2014).”
• Impact pathway evaluation: an approach for achieving and attributing impact in complex systems (2003, background): “The first is the ‘follow-thetechnology’ approach (Douthwaite et al., 2001b; Douthwaite, 2002) that sees technological change in general, and early adoption in particular, as an evolutionary process in which stakeholders generate novelties (i.e., make modifications; innovate), select those that…”
• Towards alternative trajectories? Reconfigurations in the Dutch electricity regime (2006, unknown): “Lynn et al. (1996), Leonard (1995), Douthwaite et al. (2002) , Brown et al. (2003).”
• Niche accumulation and hybridisation strategies in transition processes towards a sustainable energy system: An assessment of differences and pitfalls (2007, background): “Douthwaite et al. (2001, 2002) have developed a model that shows how such process takes place. Building upon Kolb’s (1984) experimental learning model and empirical research on agricultural technology, these scholars developed a learning selection model that places individual learning within a socia”