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Linking technical change to research effort: an examination of aggregation and spillovers effects
Authors:Greg Traxler   Derek Byerlee
Affiliation:Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36841–5406, USA; The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
Abstract:We used a disaggregate approach to examine investment efficiency of wheat breeding research in India. India's total research effort comprizes 20 research programs spread across 50 experiment stations. A technology spillover matrix was constructed for both potential and actual spillovers. Spillovers and free‐riding were dominant characteristics of technical change during the period studied. Although the aggregate rate of return to wheat improvement research in India was estimated to be 55%, eight programs were found to have earned a negative rate of return when spillins were taken into account. Research output is concentrated on a few strong programs. The two strongest programs generated 75% of all the technical change benefits, even though they claimed just 22% of research resources. These two programs include a significant degree of overlap, while on the other hand many farmers were not reached by any of the programs – 56 and 78% of rainfed and durum area, respectively, in 1990 was still sown with pre‐1976 varieties.
Keywords:Technical change    Wheat    India    Spillovers
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