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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
R&D Appropriability and Planned Obsolescence: Empirical Evidence from Wheat Breeding in the UK (1960-1995)
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| Autores: |
Rangnekar, Dwijen
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| Data: |
2006-05-24
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| Ano: |
2002
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| Palavras-chave: |
Planned Obsolescence
R&D appropriability
Innovation
Plant Breeding
Crop Production/Industries
L13
O31
Q10
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| 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).
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
21520
http://purl.umn.edu/24904
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
European Association of Agricultural Economists>2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain
Contributed Paper
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| Formato: |
18
application/pdf
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