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Abstract
Literature on innovation adoption mechanism has emphasised the positive effect of Single Farm
Payments (SFP) and Rural Development Payments on adoption of new technologies. In this
context, the expected process of CAP reforming after 2013 is likely to strengthen the role of
innovation in the European Union (EU). The objective of this paper is to identify the
determinants of the adoption of future innovation, in particular in connection to past
innovation, and to assess the role of agricultural policy in the promotion of innovation
adoption. The analysis is applied to two regions (Centre and Midi-Pyrénées) in France. Two
separate Count models are developed in order to explain famers’ stated intention concerning
different intensities of innovation adoption under two different policy scenarios. Preliminary
results highlight that the CAP strongly affects the decision to innovate and the innovation
intensity, even if there is no statistical significance for the variable connected to the amount of
payments or the level of payment per hectare.