Illicit seeds: Intellectual property and the underground proliferation of agricultural biotechnologies

Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation Over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 56-79

  Herring, Ronald J ^a   Kandlikar, Milind ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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