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THE ECONOMICS OF BIOSAFETY: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Maredia, Mywish K. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1998

There is a growing body of literature on the safe use of biotechnology and the need for an international biosafety … protocol and national regulations to facilitate the safe development and transfer of biotechnology. Most of these studies … biotechnology, with special emphasis on implications for developing countries who are under increasing pressure to put a biosafety …

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AN ERA OF CONFUSION: THE LAND GRANT RESEARCH AGENDA AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Weatherspoon, Dave D.; Oehmke, James F.; Raper, Kellie Curry - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2000

, industry concentration, and balancing money and the Land Grant mission are issues LGCUs currently face. The ag-biotechnology …. Keywords: Biotechnology, Land Grant Mission, Research …

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Global rules, patent power and our food future: controlling the food system in the 21st century

Tansey, Geoff - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2006

The rules affecting our food future have been rewritten since the early 1990s, often in remote international bodies. This paper briefly outlines the nature of today's food system, discusses some of these rules and focuses on the dynamics of rule making in the World Trade Organisation, in...

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Differing U.S. and European Perspectives on GMOs: Political, Economic and Cultural Issues

Runge, C. Ford; Bagnara, Gian Luca; Jackson, Lee Ann - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 02 (2001) 2

This paper provides an overview of the historical and cultural factors that have contributed to divergent U.S. and European views on GMOs, and to resulting different national regulatory approaches for these products, specifically labelling policy. Within the context of the international trading...

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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE: A CASE STUDY OF THE ECONOMIC RETURNS OF DNA DIAGNOSTICS

O'Connor, Alan; Rowe, Brent - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 17 (2008) 7-8, pp. 649-661

public health benefits. Biotechnology R&D is generally characterized by technologies requiring substantial investments in … with which the biotechnology industry and medical science acquire genetic information. Counterfactual scenarios were used …

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Identity Preservation and Labeling of Genetically Modified Products: System Design and Enforcement Issues

Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2004

This paper analyzes economic issues that arise in devising a credible and enforceable system of identity preservation and labeling for genetically modified (GM) and non-GM products. The model represents three stages in the supply chain: farm production, marketing handlers, and final users. The...

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Industrial Clustering and the Returns to Inventive Activity Canadian Biotechnology Firms, 1991-2000

Aharonson, Barak S.; Baum, Joel A.C.; Feldman, Maryann P. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004

We examine how industrial clustering affects biotechnology firms’ innovativeness, contrasting similar firms not located …

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The Option Value of Scientific Uncertainty on Pest - Resistance Development of Transgenic Crops

Wesseler, Justus - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper the option value of waiting under scientific uncertainty will be derived using the difference between the geometric Brownian motion and the mean reverting process by applying contingent claim analysis. The results will be compared with those generated by either using a geometric...

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Propriété industrielle et biotechnologies :Application au règne végétal (Industrial property and biotechnology: an application to the plant kingdom)

Chagnon, Philippe - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2007

conventional period is characterized by scientific and technical progress (heredity laws, biotechnology, etc.), the emergence of …

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Does New Zealand have an Innovation System for Biotechnology?

Marsh, Dan - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2002

While there is a large and growing international literature on economic aspects of biotechnology innovation (e.g. work … Zealand biotechnology industry may be expected to develop along a different trajectory as a consequence of a markedly … biotech patent data and results from the New Zealand and Canadian biotechnology surveys. The paper then focuses on factors …

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