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Agricultural Biotechnology's Complementary Intellectual Assets
Graff, Gregory D.; Rausser, Gordon C.; Small, Arthur A. - 2015
We formulate and test a hypothesis for the dramatic restructuring that the plant breeding and seed industry has recently undergone: the reorganization can be explained in part by the desire to exploit complementarities between intellectual assets needed to create genetically modified organisms....
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Agricultural biotechnology's complementary intellectual assets
Graff, Gregory D.; Rausser, Gordon C.; Small, Arthur Adams - 2001
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Agricultural biotechnology's complementary intellectual assets
Graff, Gregory D.; Rausser, Gordon C.; Small, Arthur Adams - In: The review of economics and statistics 85 (2003) 2, pp. 349-363
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Chapter 49 Private Agricultural Research
Pray, Carl E.; Fuglie, Keith O.; Johnson, Daniel K.N. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2605-2640). 2007
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...
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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 2008
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R&D, design, production and sales of new products, and...
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The impact of M&A on technology sourcing strategies
Cefis, Elena - 2008
The paper investigates the effects of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) on corporate research and development (R&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data on the Dutch manufacturing sector. The focus of the research is whether M&A affect corporate innovation strategies, favouring...
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Patents : a means to innovation or strategic ends?
Schwarz, Jiri; Stepanek, Martin - 2016
strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift … companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …
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Chapter 48 Agricultural Innovation: Investments and Incentives
Wright, Brian D.; Pardey, Philip G.; Nottenburg, Carol; … - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2533-2603). 2007
Investments in R&D and agricultural innovations have been fundamental to long-term economic growth worldwide. But global resource allocation has been uneven, with some developing countries closing in on developed-world scientific capacities, others regaining ground lost over the past decade or...
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&As), market structure and inventive activity in the agricultural biotechnology industry
Oehmke, James F.; Naseem, Anwar - In: Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization 14 (2016) 1, pp. 19-32
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Intellectual Capital in a Q-Theory of Ag-Biotech Mergers
Schimmelpfennig, David; King, John L.; Naseem, Anwar - 2015
Tobin’s Q-theory of investment has been linked to firm merger activity by Jovanovic and Rousseau. They showed that firms with higher Q-values, that is the ratio of market to book values, tend to be the ones buying other firms and not the ones being acquired. Market values should theoretically...
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