Adoção e difusão de cultivares de maracujá-azedo desenvolvidos pelo IAC no Brasil.

This paper presents an analysis of the innovation in the development of passion fruit cultivars in Brazil from the 1990s. The analysis is carried out based on primary and secondary data on the productive evolution of the passion fruit cultivation and its technology transfer process. The main contributions are the presentation of the innovation process of passion fruit and its importance for the productive chain development and the characterization of the geographical distribution of evolutionary indicators of production, harvested area and technology transfer of the IAC passion fruit cultivars. From the results we can infer that the efficiency of planning, management and evaluation of technology transfer actions should be continuous and interactive with RD&I.