This chapter serves to assess the quantity and impact of private agricultural research in developing countries, alongside the policies which affect that research. To provide context, an outline of the history, size and structure of private research presents data on research expenditures by...

The paper discusses two types of problems related to assigning or denying intellectual property rights to agro-biotechnological innovations in the relation between developed and developing countries. First, protecting property rights on innovations creates incentives towards further research and...

This article discusses a variety of public policy issues relating to gene patenting. Public policy issues discussed include privacy and cloning, some of the economic considerations of obtaining gene patents, the legal environment of gene patenting, and the legalities and special problems that...