Carl E. PrayDepartment of Food, Agriculture, and Resource Economics, Rutgers University.Anwar NaseemInternational Food Policy Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This paper examines the role of patents in the development and use of two platform technologies for plant biotechnology—plant transformation techniques and structural…

Jay P. KesanCollege of Law and Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignAndres A. GalloDepartment of Economics and Geography, University of North, Florida, Jacksonville This paper analyzes the evolution of property rights legislation in Argentina with respect…

Albert K.A. AcquayeDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis.Greg TraxlerDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. intellectual property (IP) protected innovation are analyzed. A general analytical model parameterized with data from the US introduction of Bt cotton…

Kelly Day Rubenstein and Paul W. HeiseyUnited States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. Private funding for agricultural research now exceeds that of the public sector. Other changes have included policies to make greater use of technology transfer mechanisms, such as patents…

Kenrett Y. Jefferson-MooreDepartment of Agribusiness, Applied Economics & Agriscience Education, North Carolina A&T State University.Greg TraxlerAgricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. The driving force behind the growth of the agricultural biotechnology industry is the potential to increase efficiency in the production…

Jessica GoldbergerProgram on Agricultural Technology Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Jeanne MerrillMichael Fields Agricultural Institute.Terrance HurleyDepartment of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reregistered Bt corn in 2001 with mandatory insect resistance management (IRM) requirements in order to…

Uma KambhampatiDepartment of Economics, University of Reading, UK.Stephen MorseDepartment of Geography, University of Reading, UK.Richard BennettDepartment of Agricultural and Food Economics, University ofReading, UK.Yousouf IsmaelDepartment of Agricultural and Food Economics, University ofReading, UK. The paper reports the findings of a study designed…

Sergio H. Lence and Dermot J. HayesDepartment of Economics, Iowa State University. A two-country extension of an ex ante simulation model of research and development (R&D) in agriculture developed by Lence, Hayes, McCunn, Smith, and Niebur (2005) is used to analyze issues…

Graham Brookes and Peter BarfootPG Economics Ltd., Dorchester, UK. 2005 represents the tenth planting season since genetically modified (GM) crops were first grown in 1996. This milestone provides the opportunity to critically assess the impact this technology is having on global agriculture….

Edna F. Einsiedel and Jennifer MedlockUniversity of Calgary, Alberta. Plant molecular farming (PMF) is another phase in the ongoing research and development of transgenic plants, offering possibilities of producing therapeutic and industrial proteins. However, this technology poses important social and policy challenges….