This volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of the rapidly evolving field of agribusiness, highlighting the most current issues, concepts, trends and themes in research, practice and policy.? With a particular emphasis on technology, product and process innovation, the authors cover a wide array of topics relating to such issues as research and development, technology transfer and patents and licensing, with particular respect to the roles of academic institutions, private organizations and public agencies in generating and disseminating knowledge.
Featuring case studies of innovative initiatives across the industry, this book will appeal to researchers, business leaders, university administrators and policymakers concerned with the multi-faceted implications of this dynamic and controversial sector.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: R&D Spending and Agricultural Innovation Organization and Emerging Trends.- Chapter 2: The Shifting Structure of Agricultural R&D: Worldwide Investment Patterns and Payoffs.- Chapter 3: Private Sector Research and Development.- Chapter 4: Structural Change and Innovation in the Global Agricultural Input Sector.- Chapter 5: Private-Public R&D in the Development of the Canola Industry in Canada.- Part II: Institutional Incentives for Agricultural Innovation.- Chapter 6: Why do US Corn Yields Increase? The Contributions of Genetics, Agronomy, and Policy Instruments.- Chapter 7: Whither the Research Anticommons?.- Chapter 8: Patent Characteristics and Patent Ownership in Agricultural Biotechnology.- Chapter 9: Innovation and Technology Transfer among Firms in the Agricultural Input Sector.- Chapter 10: Land-grant University Research as a Driver of Progress in Agriscience.- Chapter 11: Agriscience Innovation at Land-grant Universities, Measured by Patentsand Plant Variety Protection Certificates as Proxies.- Part III: Technology Transfer from the Public to the Privatl1
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