Managers of private entrepreneurial firms face obstacles in raising capital both in placing a value on a firm and conveying value to investors. These problems are exacerbated when the firm is small, has limited assets (except for human capital) and has yet to have a lead product. In such cases...

This article provides estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of its potential impacts beyond the few countries where it is currently common. Use is made of the latest version of the GTAP database and model. Our results suggest that if other...

A "Workshop on Metabolomics and Environmental Biotechnology" was organised on 16-17 June 2008 in Mallorca (Spain) as an initiative of the Environmental Biotechnology Working Group of the EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research. The Workshop covered topics on metabolomics and functional...