The economic incentive to innovate in plants: Patents and plant breeders' rights

Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Seeds of Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 190-203

  Moschini, G ^a   Yerokhin, O ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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