This paper focuses the public domain in PGRs. It attempts to understand the current state of the international regime governing PGRs and IPRs, using a combination of theory from property law and international relations to structure the analysis. It highlights the remaining issues to be resolved...

We have examined all the US patents (444) issued to homegrown Indian pharma and pharma biotech firms. Most (425, 95%) patents are pharma patents not biotech (19). Also, only 11 patents have been cited ten times or more. This data provides one snapshot of the biotech industry in India today. It...

1. Introduction and objectives of the study -- 2. An overview of cotton in India -- 3. Development and adoption of Bt Cotton -- 4.Sampling and methodology of the study across the states -- 5. Nature and performance of Bt Cotton vs. non-Bt Cotton -- 6. Economics of Bt Cotton vs. non-Bt Cotton...

The political economy of agricultural biotechnology is addressed in this review through three puzzles. First, why were new crop technologies of the Green Revolution readily accepted, versus today's considerable blockage of genetically engineered crops? Second, why has genetic engineering in...

A general function to quantify the weight of evidence in a sample of data for one hypothesis over another is derived from the law of likelihood and from a statistical formalization of inference to the best explanation. For a fixed parameter of interest, the resulting weight of evidence that...

Currently our assessment of whether someone is a good parent depends on the environmental inputs (or lack of such inputs) they give their children. But new genetic intervention technologies, to which we may soon have access, mean that how good a parent is will depend also on the genetic inputs...

This article examines the relationship between the concept of biopiracy and the emerging concept of the bioeconomy in the context of negotiations on the establishment of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity. The...

This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...