IP protection to agricultural biotechnology has remained a contentious issue in India having serious implications for stakeholders and agricultural innovation. Farmers and plant breeders made strong resistance against the extension of IP monopoly to agriculture sector and were sceptical that...

One set of underexplored issues in the entrepreneurship literature is at what point entrepreneurial firms grow become the acquisition targets of larger firms in the same industry versus situations where such entrepreneurial firms develop contractual relations with such larger firms and what role...

Aquatic genetic resources are one of the last frontiers for bioprospecting and an important resource for global food security. Genetic resources within national jurisdiction are presently governed by a complex matrix of access and benefit sharing regimes including the United Nations’...

The picture of a Trojan horse, wrapped in banners reading STOP CETA, best portrays the fears underpinning the public opposition to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA). The main suspicion is that the technical jargon of the economic transatlantic deal, hailed as...

Modern scientific research and the exploitation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge may offer great benefits to humankind. How can the patent system help scientists, commercial enterprises and civil society at large to realize those benefits while safeguarding the rights and interests...

In this contribution, the Ghent green biotech innovation district in highlighted. Belgium has firmly established itself as an international red biotechnology, i.e. pharmaceutical and healthcare applications - country, with a world class biotechnology industry in the Flanders and Wallonia...

'The bioeconomy [...] encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.' This notion of the bioeconomy was formulated in the European Commission's...

'The bioeconomy [...] encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.' This notion of the bioeconomy was formulated in the European Commission's...

This Explanatory Note on New Techniques in Agricultural Biotechnology (new breeding techniques) responds to a request made to the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors by Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. The Note provides a scientific and technical...

This Explanatory Note on New Techniques in Agricultural Biotechnology (new breeding techniques) responds to a request made to the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors by Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. The Note provides a scientific and technical...