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Intellectual Property Rights on Research Tools : Incentives or Barriers to Innovation? Case Studies of Rice Genomics and Plant Transformation Technologies
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper examines the role of patents in the development and use of two platform technologies for plant biotechnology -- plant transformation techniques and structural genomics. We find that patents were important in ...
Does Plant Variety Intellectual Property Protection Improve Farm Productivity? Evidence from Cotton Varieties
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The plant variety protection (PVP) system has been criticized by some authors as being nothing more than a marketing tool and not having much effect on productivity. We investigate this issue for the case of cotton in the ...
Property Rights and Incentives to Invest in Seed Varieties : Governmental Regulations in Argentina
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper analyzes the evolution of property rights legislation in Argentina with respect to new seed varieties. In comparison to the United States, Argentina has weak protection and enforcement of property rights for new ...
An Innovation Market Approach to Analyzing Impacts of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Plant Biotechnology Industry
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper provides some insights into the impacts of firm concentration on research output by analyzing data on research output in the form of United States patents and field trials by private firms and merger activity ...
Bt Corn Farmer Compliance with Insect Resistance Management Requirements in Minnesota and Wisconsin
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) re-registered Bt corn in 2001 with mandatory insect resistance management (IRM) requirements in order to promote sustainable use by farmers. Since then studies have ...
Why Left-Libertarianism Isn't Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant: A Reply to Fried
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
Over the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in left-libertarianism, which holds (roughly) that agents fully own themselves and that natural resources (land, minerals, air, etc.) belong to everyone in some ...
Law's Box: Law, Jurisprudence and the Information Ecosphere
(University of Missouri, 2005)
For so long as it has been important to know what the law is, the practice of law has been an information profession. Nonetheless, just how the information ecosphere affects legal discourse and thinking has never been ...
Reaching for answers
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2005)
From studying causes to treating cases, MU's autism experts extend their knowledge to children with the disorder and the families who care for them.
Writing in Africa, about Africa, for Africans as an American
(2005)
Nine years of photographic and interview data with Ndzundza Ndebele women artists and their families have informed my view of the transitions in Ndebele art and culture since the end of the apartheid era. I am writing an ...
Lab to market
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2005)
Research starts with a problem. Entrepreneurship starts with a need. Through technology transfer, the two come together to create products that solve problems and fill needs.
Fission and fusion in Paschke's Kiss I
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
and private from public life. Paschke, who famously claimed that if he had not been an artist he would have been a criminal, directed much of his career toward questioning such established mores. Thus, in keeping with the artist's circumstances and celebrated...
An Extensive New Literature Concerning Low-Dose Effects of Bisphenol A Shows the Need for a New Risk Assessment
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)
to hydrolysis, leaching of BPA has led to widespread human exposure. As of December 2004, there were 115 published in vivo studies concerning low-dose effects of BPA, and 94 of these report significant effects. In 31 publications with vertebrate and invertebrate...
Instructional Practices Inventory: A Process for Profiling Student Engaged Learning for School Improvement
(2005-08)
This manuscript was written to describe in some detail the IPI data collection categories, the use of those categories to support school-wide instructional change by studying student engaged learning and provide data from ...