Intellectual property rights on research tools: Incentives or barriers to innovation? Case studies of rice genomics and plant transformation technologies

AgBioForum

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 108-117

  Pray, Carl E ^a   Naseem, Anwar ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Genomics; Holdup; Intellectual property rights; Patents; Platform technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844464100     PISSN: 1522936X     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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