@article{Oro:241962,
      recid = {241962},
      author = {Oro, Kohei},
      title = {The Role of Farmers' Funding in an Interaction in the  Australian Rural R&D Process},
      journal = {Journal of Rural Economics},
      address = {2011-09},
      number = {359-2016-18399},
      pages = {13},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Australia is the world's front runner in farmer-driven R&D  system reforms. Collective funding bodies operate on the  farmers' levy, and they budget public R&D projects  satisfying farmers' needs. This paper applies an innovation  system perspective to explain how those funding bodies  steer R&D at the following stages: project setup, project  management, and farmer adoption. The behaviors of actors in  the system, such as managers of the funding body  (Meat&Livestock Australia Ltd., MLA), researchers, and  extension officers are examined. The findings are as  follows: (i) Effective interactions among actors are  observed in the northern beef sector. (ii) MLA promoted and  controlled the interaction by flexibly designing who and  how to interact at each stage. (iii) From the interaction,  MLA obtained local specific information, such as farmers'  technical problems, researchers' abilities, and research  progress, which served as a basis for steering R&D  rightly.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/241962},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.241962},
}