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An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards
Mitra, Prasenjit; Purao, Sandeep; Bagby, John W.; … - Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University; … - 2005
There is an evolution in the process used by standards-developmentorganizations (SDOs) and this is changing the prevailing standardsdevelopment activity (SDA) for information and communications technology(ICT). The process is progressing from traditional SDA modes, typicallyinvolving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435090
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Intellectual Property Rights and Their Impacts in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis of Maize Breeding in Mexico
Leger, Andreanne - 2005
There is little empirical evidence concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) on a technologically advanced developing country. Complete enumeration of the Mexican maize breeding industry showed that, contrary to the hypothesis that IPR would provide, in a technologically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443020
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP INNOVATIONS AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION: TRADE AND WELFARE EFFECTS IN THE SOYBEAN COMPLEX
Sobolevsky, Andrei; Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - 2002
We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans, soybean oil, and soybean meal. In the model, some consumers view genetically modified Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and products as weakly inferior to conventional ones; the RR seed is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443097
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Impact of Foreign Intellectual Property Rights Protection on U.S. Exports and FDI
Gu, Weishi - 2009
This version of the paper is subject to changes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444727
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Intellectual Property Rights and Crop-Improving R&D under Adaptive Destruction
Yerokhin, Oleg; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2007
This paper studies how the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) affects investments in biological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445584
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The Economics of Generating and Maintaining Plant Variety Rights in China
Koo, Bonwoo; Pardey, Philip G.; Qian, Keming; Zhang, Yi - 2003
Notwithstanding the ambiguous research and productivity promoting effects of plant varietyprotections (PVPs), even in developed countries, many developing countries have adoptedPVPs in the past few years to comply with their Trade-Related Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights (TRIPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445945
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: AN ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGES FACING INDUSTRY AND THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Spielman, David J.; von Grebmer, Klaus - 2004
Public-private partnerships offer potentially important opportunities for pro-pooragricultural research in developing countries. Yet in the international agricultural researchcommunity--and with regard to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research(CGIAR) itself--we see few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446829
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THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER IMPERFECT ENFORCEMENT: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE TRIPS AGREEMENT
Giannakas, Konstantinos - 2001
modifiedseed) in the context of a small open developing economy. Enforcement of IPRs, andpricing and adoption of the new technology … are modeled as a sequential game betweenthe government that enforces the IPRs, a foreign innovating firm that prices the … IPRs will remain imperfect and the innovators’ ability toobtain value for their biotech traits will still be limited. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446832
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THE ECONOMICS OF GENERATING AND MAINTAINING PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS IN CHINA
Koo, Bonwoo; Pardey, Philip G.; Qian, Keming; Zhang, Yi - 2003
Notwithstanding the ambiguous research and productivity promoting effects of plant variety protections (PVPs), even in developed countries, many developing countries have adopted PVPs in the past few years to comply with their Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446833
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How does Open Source Software contribute to socio-economic development? An investigation of Open Source Software as an alternative approach to technology diffusion, adoption and ad...
Emdon, Heloise - 2010
AbstractDeveloping countries are net importers of intellectual property products and open source software (OSS) production is one way in which local socio-economic development can take place. The public goods characteristics of OSS are contested and this study investigates whether in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447848