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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | R&amp;D Appropriability and Planned Obsolescence: Empirical Evidence from Wheat Breeding in the UK (1960-1995)
Autores: | Rangnekar,   Dwijen.
Data: | 2006-05-24
Ano: | 2002
Palavras-chave: | Planned Obsolescence; R&amp;D appropriability; Innovation; Plant Breeding; Crop Production/Industries; L13; O31; Q10.
Resumo: | Plant breeders face a unique appropriation problem - plants are reproducible, genetic information is heritable and seeds can be multiplied. The paper uses indicators of varietal age as a proxy for durability to examine strategies of planned obsolescence. Using wheat breeding in the UK, evidence of strategies of planned obsolescence is confirmed. This is then corroborated with evidence of tendencies towards increased proliferation of varieties on the market and breeding strategies that focus on incremental productivity improvements (i.e. increased efficiency) and narrow and limited disease resistance (i.e. reduced durability).
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

21520

http://purl.umn.edu/24904

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain

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Formato:

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