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Competition Issues in the Seed Industry and the Role of Intellectual Property

Moschini, GianCarlo - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

Research and Development (R&D) and innovation are crucial features of the seed industry. To supportlarge R …

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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobilityfor Industrial Innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …

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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects,and Innovative Activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for thepopulation of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our studydocuments a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and thefirm’s innovative activity. This...

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners?Determinants of Innovation in Micro,Small, and Medium Enterprises

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differencesin productivity across and … survey from Sri Lanka totest this model and to examine whether and how owner characteristics matter for innovation.The survey … also allows analysis of the incidence of innovation in micro and small firms, whichhave traditionally been overlooked in …

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Technology and Innovation in World Agriculture:Prospects for 2010-2019

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

technology and innovation in farming techniques for developed and selectivedeveloping and transition countries over 2010 …

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Pool of Basic Patents and Follow-up Innovations

Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

Basic innovations are often fundamental to the development of applications that maybe developed by other innovators. In this setting, we investigate whether patent pools canrectify the lack of incentives for developers to invest in applications. Following Green andScotchmer (1995), we also...

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Patents, Research Exemption, and the Incentive forSequential Innovation

Moschini, Giancarlo; Yerokhin, Oleg - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

We develop a dynamic duopoly model of R&D competition to improve the quality of a finalgood. The innovation process is … other hand, depends onthe relative magnitudes of the costs of initial innovation and improvements. In particular, aresearch …

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Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in PlantMaterials

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

This paper presents an economic perspective on intellectual property in plantmaterials, including its value, and summary information on the U.S. seed industry. It firstconsiders intellectual property rights--types, economic incentives that they bestow, and usesacross developed and developing...

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Heterogeneity of Southern Countries and SouthernIntellectual Property Rights Policy

Lapan, Harvey E.; Kim, Jeong-Eon - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

We develop a model with one innovating northern firm and heterogeneous southernfirms that compete in a final product market. We assume southern firms differ in their intrinsiccosts and their ability to adapt technology and study southern incentives to protect intellectualproperty rights. We find...

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Developments in the Organization and Finance of PublicAgricultural Research in the United States, 1988-1999

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This paper describes major external changes to the U.S. public agricultural researchsystem over 1988-1999; describes the reactions of the public agricultural research system to theexternal changes, specifying the innovations that have occurred over the last decade; and drawsconclusions about the present...

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