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The changing agricultural research environment : what does it mean for public-private innovation?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Agricultural research has experienced increased industry spending and public-private collaborations. Private incentives for public goods research are limited. Public-private ventures can foster socially beneficial research. ...
Partnerships between public and private : the experience of the Cooperative Research Center for Plant Science in Australia
(AgBioForum, 1999)
We discuss an innovative scheme, the Cooperative Research Centers Program, established by the Australian government in 1991, which has a major objective of delivering research output of direct benefit to Australian industries. ...
Public science, biotechnology, and the industrial organization of agrofood systems
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Concentration in the agricultural biotechnology sector and general patterns of restructuring raise important policy questions regarding public investments in research and extension. We argue that the most valuable contributions ...
Exploring the public's role in agricultural biotechnology research
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The potential for market failure resulting from under-investment in research is onejustification for public agricultural research. This justification seems less germane given recent developments regarding intellectual ...
Public/private alliances
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The traditional research paradigm represents discoveries flowing linearly from basic science conducted in public institutions to applied research and commercialization undertaken largely by private industry. This ...
Are research alliances between private firms and land grant universities compatible with the original purpose?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Increased collaboration between private firms and State Agricultural Experiment Stations (SAES) raises fears that the independence, objectivity, and credibility of SAES and their scientists may be compromised. Likewise, ...
Balancing basic, genetic enhancement and cultivar development research in an evolving US plant germplasm system
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The structure of the United States (U.S.) public-private plant genetic research system is being transformed by the emergence of practical biotechnology protocols for creating transgenic plants; and by strengthened intellectual ...
F.A. Hayek: Austrian Economist and Social Theorist
(Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999)
Frederich August von Hayek is undoubtedly the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists. Student of Friedrich von Wieser, protégé and colleague of Ludwig von Mises, and foremost representative of an outstanding ...
The agricultural knowledge system : appropriate roles and interactions for the public and private sectors
(AgBioForum, 1999)
For over one hundred years, Land Grant Universities (LGUs) have pushed the frontiers of knowledge; have translated new knowledge into practice for the benefit of farmers, agribusiness and consumers; and have prepared the ...
Operation rescue, vocabularies of motive, and tactical action: a study of movement framing in the practice of quasi-nonviolence
(JAI Press, Inc., 1997)
Since the end of World War II an increasing number of social movements have claimed that they are practicing nonviolent civil disobedience tactics. Too often these claims are uncritically accepted even when proposed by ...
The Effect of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen: Pitcher's Moral Hazard or the Team's Cost-Benefit Calculation?: A Comment
(Oxford University Press, 1998-10)
Goff, Shughart and Tollison [1997] attribute the American League's higher hit-batsman rate since 1973 to moral hazard: pitchers who no longer bat no longer face retaliation. We argue that retaliation is more efficiently ...
Origins of a Current Conflict? An Examination of Stock-Nonstock Cooperative Law
(American Institute of Cooperation, 1993)
The earliest state cooperative laws in the United States were stock laws modeled
upon the Rochdale experience and were adaptations of basic corporate laws of
Incorporation to the cooperative form of organization. They ...
The tender carnivore and the sacred game
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1973)
"A provocative new book by alumnus Paul Shepard examines our Stone Age past as a key to man's future survival."--Page 12
Mizzou-rah Mizzou-rah Mizzou-rah tigers!
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1973)
"The football season is upon us, and the feeling grows around the Big Eight that Missouri is back."--Table of contents for issue.
The Senate, the University and Dr. Ratchford
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1973)
"The last session of the General Assembly gave public evidence that the lawmakers were unhappy with some aspects of the institution, particularly in the area of Extension."--Table of contents for issue.
Clay Cooper : dean of tiger football coaches
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1972)
"Clay Cooper projects the image of being unflappable. The Tiger's assistant head football coach is properly regarded as being pragmatic."--Page 5
Ye quaint heritage of olde Mizzou
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1973)
"In preparing this year's edition of the 'M Book,' the Campus' student manual, Georgia Lakaytis included a special section on little known facts about the University. Here are some of them."--Page 10
Who put up the green flag?
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1972)
Summary: Article shares information from a letter by Vernon G. Cox, about a University prank from 1916.
Ray Bengert's baskets of hope
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1972)
"Although Bengert is head of two companies, he is far from retired. Bengert runs both businesses by himself with limited financial resources. Yet, he's doing what he wants."--Page 9
University freshman (Columbia, Missouri)
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1973)
"Tom McAfee's poem recalls 1946, his first year on the Columbia Campus."--Table of contents for issue.