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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Intellectual Property Rights on Research Tools: Incentives or Barriers to Innovation?
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| Autores: |
Pray, Carl E.
Naseem, Anwar
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| Data: |
2005-05-17
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
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| Resumo: |
This paper examines the role of patents in the development and use of two platform technologies for plant biotechnology - plant transformation techniques and structural genomics. We find that patents were important in inducing private firms to develop these platform technologies. There development led to the commercialization of more GM varieties, more rapidly than would have been the case otherwise. We did identify a number of examples of GM varieties that were slowed down by the patents on tools. However, our preliminary assessment of the evidence suggests that the benefits from patents on tools outweigh the costs.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
16450
http://purl.umn.edu/19554
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI
Selected Paper 136528
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| Formato: |
30
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