Privatization and Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology

Graff, Gregory, Amir Heiman,Cherisa Yarkin and David Zilberman

from ARE Update Vol. 6, No. 3, Jan/Feb, 2003

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Abstract

Agricultural biotechnology as a science exists thanks to publicly funded research, but it exists as an industry thanks to privately funded product development. How compatible are these two?

Keywords

biotechnology, private funding, productivity, privatization, commercial development, market

Citation

Graff, Gregory, Amir Heiman,Cherisa Yarkin and David Zilberman. 2003. "Privatization and Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology." ARE Update 6(3): 5-7. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.
https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1453327732/16632/