@article{Wright:10954,
      recid = {10954},
      author = {Wright, Robert Thomson},
      title = {Technological Leapfrogging as a Source of Competitive  Advantage in the American and Polish Tart Cherry  Industries},
      address = {2005},
      number = {1097-2016-88618},
      series = {Graduate Research Master's Degree Plan B Papers},
      pages = {111},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {This paper evaluates new tart cherry harvester technology  and measures its ability to determine technological  leapfrogging and competitive advantage between the United  States and Poland. Competitive advantage is evaluated using  break-even analysis, threshold farm size analysis and  economic valuation.

Findings reveal that that only a small  minority of Polish farmers will be able to adopt new  harvesters under current conditions. This same minority of  Polish farmers, however, is probably the most important  group to U.S. growers in terms of international tart cherry  competition. Economic valuation shows that it will be  extremely difficult for Michigan farmers to remove tart  cherry orchards planted for shaker-harvest before their  normal lifespan without economic loss. Economic valuation  also demonstrates that there is a great incentive to adopt  overhead harvesters due to their ability to harvest younger  trees and to decrease per unit production costs.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10954},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.10954},
}