During the 1990s the market for biotechnology in agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors have became an international economic force. Investment in research and development (R&D) of new seed varieties has become a key factor for market success. In the last decades the investment in R&D switched...

This article critically examines the common justification for the corporate self-evaluative privilege (SEP) that such privilege protection is essential in order to avoid chilling corporate self-policing. We develop a formal game theoretic model to study the strategic interaction between a...