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Intellectual Property Rights in a Changing Political Environment: Perspectives on the Types and Administration of Protection
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have been critically reassessed
in recent years. This paper evaluates several of those
analyses in detail. With regard to patent quality in the United
States, analysis indicates that ...
Swedish Consumer Preferences for Animal Welfare and Biotech: A Choice Experiment
(AgBioForum, 2006)
This paper compares consumer preferences for immunocastration
versus surgical castration and no castration using willingness-
to-pay estimates from a choice experiment. Results
suggest that consumers place a higher value ...
International Patent Behavior of Nine Major Agricultural Biotechnology Firms
(AgBioForum, 2006)
This paper examines the international patent behavior of nine
major firms for seven patent authorities: Australia, Brazil, Canada,
China, the European Patent Office (EPO), Japan, and
South Africa. The patent sample is ...
Will Developing Countries be the Early Adopters of Genetically Engineered Forests?
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Although anticipation of a biotechnology revolution has led to expectations of high rates of adoption and substantial financial returns, one area that has been slow to develop is that of tree biotechnology, particularly ...
Trust, Bias, and Fairness of Information Sources for Biotechnology Issues
(AgBioForum, 2005)
What do journalists think about information source trustworthiness, bias, and fairness in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas journalists and 40 national agriculture journalists representing ...
Determinants of Corn Rootworm Resistant Corn Adoption in Indiana
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Adoption of transgenic corn resistant to corn rootworm (CRW corn) was analyzed using a probit model with data from a survey of Indiana producers. Operator age, farm size, and regional and self-reported measures of rootworm ...
The Farm-Level Impact of Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans in Romania
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper examines the farm-level impact of use of genetically
modified herbicide-tolerant (GM HT) soybeans in Romania. It
covers the context of soybeans in Romania, weeds, conventional
control measures, and the impact ...
Social Acceptance of Plant-Made Vaccines: Indications from a Public Survey
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The use of transgenic plants for production and oral delivery of vaccines has been shown effective in animal trials and Phase I human clinical testing. The use of edible plants for production of vaccines represents an ...
Differential Effects of Perceived and Objective Knowledge Measures on Perceptions of Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper compares the effects of perceived and objective knowledge measures and their relationship to a series of agricultural biotechnology applications using data gathered in a survey of regional Southwestern adults ...
The Impact of Bt Crops on the Developing World
(AgBioForum, 2004)
Genetically modified (GM) plants are grown on more than 67 million hectares in 18 countries worldwide. A major trait used in
GM crops is plant resistance to insects; this trait is based on several Bt proteins. The benefits ...
Agricultural Applications of Biotechnology and the Potential for Biodiversity Valorization in Latin America and the Caribbean
(AgBioForum, 2004)
This article provides a brief account of key developments in agricultural applications of biotechnology in Latin American and
Caribbean (LAC) countries; it also focuses on the potential of developing value-added products ...
Objective and Subjective Knowledge: Impacts on Consumer Demand for Genetically Modified Foods in the United States and the European Union
(AgBioForum, 2004)
In the growing body of literature concerning consumer acceptance
of genetically modified (GM) foods, there are significant
differences in conclusions about the impact of knowledge on
such acceptance. One potential ...
What's the Holdup? Addressing Constraints to the Use of Plant Biotechnology in Developing Countries
(AgBioForum, 2004)
Agricultural biotechnology offers great potential benefits to farmers in developing countries, but so far only a small handful of
genetically modified (GM) crop products have been planted in only a few developing countries. ...
Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food Products in the Developing World
(AgBioForum, 2004)
Worldwide consumer response toward food products made from genetically modified (GM) ingredients has been largely negative.
However, the majority of the previous studies on consumer attitudes towards food products were ...
The Potato Story
(AgBioForum, 2004)
The need for genetic improvements of American potato was recognized as a primary target for plant genetic engineering. As
immediate needs, virus and insect resistance were recognized as important and attainable goals. ...
Why We Partner: Collaborations Between the Private and Public Sectors for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation through Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2004)
It is a natural human value to share with others, and there are good business reasons for a company such as Monsanto to
share as well. Monsanto has a track record of sharing knowledge and technologies with the public ...
Social Constraints on Crop Biotechnology in Developing Countries
(AgBioForum, 2004)
Westerners often see the social components of agriculture in developing countries as constraints on development. However,
the same social components play vital roles in facilitating cultivation. Of particular relevance ...
Prospects for Bt Cotton Technology in India
(AgBioForum, 2004)
Cotton is a very important crop in India; farmers there face the challenge of losses due to various insect pests. The first genetically modified crop in India, Bt cotton, has been introduced to
address bollworm infestation. ...
Entrepreneurship and the Economic Theory of the Firm: Any Gains from Trade?
(University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004)
Though they developed in isolation, the theory of entrepreneurship and the
economic theory of the firm can be usefully integrated. In particular, the concept of entrepreneurship
as judgment associated with Knight (1921) ...
Politics and Productivity
(Western Economic Association International, 2003-07)
We use a stochastic frontier approach to study the effects of political and regulatory institutions on aggregate productivity in 39 countries from 1975 to 1990. We show that technical efficiency is positively related to ...