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 technology: 1. biographic information — especially information 

 on their job experience and innovations they have adopted 

 before. Men who adopted or refused to adopt innovations in the 

 past are likely to do so in the future. 2. a test such as the 

 Thematic Aperception Test (TAT Test) to measure "need achieve- 

 ment" (n-Ach) might be administered to all 

 those who could possibly adopt new boats and fishing technology. 

 The TAT test is a standard research instrument and relatively 

 easy to interpret. It has been used with great 

 success in predicting the motivations of entrepreneurs in the 

 United States. 



B. Economic Innovation 



The future v/ill undoubtedly see a larger niamber of 

 American boats fishing off-shore areas than there are at present. 

 Certainly this will mean that a large number of men will have to 

 adopt larger boats than they have now, and probably they will 

 equip them with more sophisticated gear than is presently in use 

 in the antiquated American fleet. However, extended jurisdiction 

 will undoubtedly create still other possible avenues for entre- 

 preneurial activity — namely it will open new markets for species 

 now caught as well as markets for species not caught at present. 

 Here again, it is reasonable to assume that the response to 

 these economic opportunities will be highly differential. Some 

 of the factors influencing patterns of acceptance or rejection 

 of these opportunities are similar to those affecting technical 

 innovation. But there are some major differences as well. When 

 we are studying the responsiveness of fishermen to new markets. 



