Welfare impacts of intellectual property protection in the seed industry

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 951-968

  Lence, Sergio H ^a   Hayes, Dermot J ^b   Mccunn, Alan ^c   Smith, Stephen ^c   Niebur, William S ^c  

^a Department of International Agricultural Economics ^*

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

GURT; Incentives to innovate; Intellectual property rights; Seed industry; Technology innovation; Terminator gene; Welfare

Indexed keywords

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEED; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 25844503009     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2005.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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