Little empirical research has explored the factors accounting for patenting success among universities in the ag-biotech realm. In this study, patent production acts as a measure of intellectual property rights production in ag-biotech, assuming that patent production is a primary goal of...

This article examines the factors that account for agricultural biotechnology patenting success among universities using a dynamic count data model. It builds a theoretical and econometric model to capture the inherently dynamic and nonlinear process of technological innovation, wherein a...

Genetically modified corn seed companies have innovated continuously with the introduction of new traits and, more recently, with the creation of stacked varieties. Thiswork develops a Bayesian model of adoption that demonstrates how uncertainty with a package technology can lead to a sequential...