Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss so that firms are under increasing pressures from stakeholders to mitigate their negative impacts on ecosystems. As business attitudes, policies and behaviors regarding biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) progressively change, a...

Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss so that firms are under increasing pressures from stakeholders to mitigate their negative impacts on ecosystems. As business attitudes, policies and behaviors regarding biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) progressively change, a...

We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the choice between secrecy, patent and open access. We consider a firm that can use a basic innovation to develop an application. The basic innovation can also lead another firm to develop a different application. We determine the incentives for the...

Within the framework of agricultural biotechnologies, there was an evolution of the intellectual property rights: the implementation of the patents on living organism, the evolution of the legislation on the Plant breeder?s right from the Union for the Protection of plant varieties, or the...

Evolutionary theories of economic development stress the role of variety as both a determinant and a result of growth. In this paper we develop a measure of variety, based on Weitzman's maximum likelihood procedure. This measure is based on the distance between products, and indicates the degree...

L'objectif de ce chapitre des d'analyser, dans le domaine des biotechnologies agricoles, comment l'évolution conjointe entre organisation de la recherche et propriété intellectuelle dans les dernières décennies peut permettre de construire l'organisation de la recherche de la propriété...

Cet article aborde les questions d'accès à la biodiversité et des risques de son appropriation. Cette question est d'autant plus complexe que ses caractéristiques sont multiples.

L'auteur analyse les conditions d'accès et d'usages des connaissances sur les ressources génétiques. Il considère alors les conséquences sur la gestion des ressources génétiques et le bien-être social dans un contexte de développement durable. Il analyse les conditions de transfert de...