The economics of innovation and technical change in agriculture

Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 939-984

  Pardey, Philip G ^a   Alston, Julian M ^b   Ruttan, Vernon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Factor bias; Innovation; Intellectual property; Market failures; Productivity; Research lags; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872775856     PISSN: 22108807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(10)02006-X     Document Type: Chapter

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