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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 based ...
Spillovers and Crowding Effects in a Mixed Biotech Industry : The Case of Canola
(AgBioForum, 2006)
This paper develops empirical models to estimate both interfirm research spillovers and crowding effects in the canola crop research industry. The potential sources of spillover include basic research, human capital/knowledge ...
National Agricultural and Texas Journalists' Attitudes Toward and Information Sources for Biotechnology Issues
(AgBioForum, 2006)
What sources of information do media professionals use, and what is the frequency of use, when covering agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas and 40 national agriculture journalists responded to this study. ...
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 ...
Mobilizing Science and Technology for Development : The Case of the Cassava Biotechnology Network (CBN)
(AgBioForum, 2006)
Cassava is regarded as the crop of last resort for millions of marginal farmers and their domestic animals in tropical regions. The Cassava Biotechnology Network (CBN) is addressing the major socioeconomic and agronomic ...
Will Agbiotech Applications Reach Marginalized Farmers? Evidence from Developing Countries
(AgBioForum, 2006)
Findings from two studies on agricultural research indicate that although developing countries invest in agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified crop research, their policy and investment environments inhibit ...
Three Seasons of Subsistence Insect-Resistant Maize in South Africa : Have Smallholders Benefited?
(AgBioForum, 2006)
White maize is the staple food of the majority of the South African population. We examine if smallholder farmers that adopted insect-resistant (Bt) varieties of white maize benefited from planting Bt over the last three ...