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Institutional and social influences on R&D evaluation in agriculture
Author(s) -
Kingwell Ross
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian journal of agricultural and resource economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.683
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-8489
pISSN - 1364-985X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8489.00071
Subject(s) - rigour , agriculture , quality (philosophy) , public economics , control (management) , affect (linguistics) , process (computing) , social benefits , economics , business , political science , sociology , computer science , management , geography , mathematics , archaeology , epistemology , communication , philosophy , geometry , operating system
Benefit‐cost analyses of R&D activity in agriculture increasingly form part of the decision‐making process of allocating R&D funds. This article describes how institutional and social influences can affect the rigour and quality of R&D evaluations. The article explores some possible mechanisms for quality control in benefit‐cost analysis so that appraisals are more likely to be accountable and credible assessments rather than false advertising or biased assessments.