RSS 1.0AgBioForum, vol. 08, no. 2 & 3 (2005)
Special Issue: Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Agricultural Biotechnology. The papers contained in this issue arose out of an IFAFS grant (# 00-52100-9619) and the capstone conference for this grant, “Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Agricultural Biotechnology” (Oct. 14–15, 2004, Washington., DC).
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GM Crops : The Global Economic and Environmental Impact -- The First Nine Years 1996-2004
(AgBioForum, 2005)2005 represents the tenth planting season since genetically modified (GM) crops were first grown in 1996. This milestone provides the opportunity to critically assess the impact this technology is having on global agriculture. ... -
Technology Fees Versus GURTs in the Presence of Spillovers : World Welfare Impacts
(AgBioForum, 2005)A two-country extension of an ex ante simulation model of research and development (R&D) in agriculture developed by Lence, Hayes, McCunn, Smith, and Niebur (2005) is used to analyze issues regarding intellectual property ... -
Perceptions of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Cotton Varieties : A Case Study of the Cotton Industry in Gujarat, India
(AgBioForum, 2005)The paper reports the findings of a study designed to consider the impact of the adoption of Bt cotton on markets, businesses, and institutional arrangements in India. Given that evidence to date suggests that widespread ... -
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 ... -
Second-Generation GMOs : Where to from Here?
(AgBioForum, 2005)The driving force behind the growth of the agricultural biotechnology industry is the potential to increase efficiency in the production of commodities and to provide benefits to consumers and producers as well as profits ... -
Can Technology Transfer Help Public-Sector Researchers Do More with Less? The Case of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service
(AgBioForum, 2005)Private funding for agricultural research now exceeds that of the public sector. Other changes have included policies to make greater use of technology transfer mechanisms, such as patents and licensing and Cooperative ... -
Monopoly Power, Price Discrimination, and Access to Biotechnology Innovations
(AgBioForum, 2005)Price discrimination and monopoly power in the provision of an intellectual property (IP) protected innovation are analyzed. A general analytical model parameterized with data from the US introduction of Bt cotton is used ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Stocks of Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property
(AgBioForum, 2005)A subset of patents owned by six large agricultural biotechnology companies is analyzed from the new Initiatives for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (IFAFS) Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database. ... -
Patterns of Public-Sector and Private-Sector Patenting in Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2005)Over the past 20 years, patenting in agricultural biotechnology has grown even faster than the rapid increase in US utility patents. Private firms, universities, and the federal government all increased patenting in ... -
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 ... -
Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Plant Biotechnology : An Introduction to the Researchable Issues
(AgBioForum, 2005)The agricultural biotechnology industry is characterized by heavy investment in research and development, dynamic technical change, and increasing concentration in both the output market and the ownership of intellectual ... -
Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2005)Innovation is the key to firm survival and growth in many industries, but nowhere more so than in agricultural biotechnology. Understanding the causes and consequences of biotechnology innovation requires negotiating a ...