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Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research: New Institutional Arrangements and Economic Implications

ISBN: 978-0-8138-2789-6
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376 pages
February 2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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Foreword by Susan E. Offutt vii

List of Tables ix

List of Figures xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction

1 Overview of the Volume 3
Keith O. Fuglie and David E. Schimmelpfennig

I. Innovations in Financing Agricultural Research

2 Trends in Agricultural Research Expenditures in the United States 9
Keith O. Fuglie

3 Financing Agricultural R&D in Rich Countries: What’s Happening and Why 25
Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey, and Vincent H. Smith

4 Financing Agricultural Research with Prior Distortionary Taxes and Subsidies 55
George B. Frisvold and Stephen J. Vogel

II. Public and Private Investments in Plant and Animal Research

5 A National Strategy for Plant Breeding in the United States 77
Kenneth J. Frey

6 The Role of Federal, State, and Private Institutions in Seed Technology Generation 99
Jose Falck-Zepeda and Greg Traxler

7 Public and Private Investments in Animal Research 117
Keith 0. Fuglie, Clare A. Narrod, and Catherine Neumeyer

III. Institutions for Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research

8 The CRADA Model for Public-Private Research and Technology Transfer in Agriculture 155
Kelly Day-Rubenstein and Keith O. Fuglie

9 The Research Consortium Model for Agricultural Research 175
Mary K. Knudson

10 State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Intellectual Property Rights 199
Mary K. Knudson, Richard L. Lower, and Richard Jones

IV. International Spillovers in Agricultural Research

11 Agricultural Technology Spillovers 219
Robert E. Evenson

12 Significance of International Spillovers from Public Agricultural Research 245
David E. Schimmelpfennig and Colin G.Thirtle

13 The Private Sector and International Technology Transfer in Agriculture 269
Carl E. Pray and Keith O. Fuglie

14 Assessing U.S. Benefits of Training Foreign Agricultural Scientists 301
Nicole Ballenger and Cassandra Klotz-Ingram

Conclusion

15. Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research: The Future 325
John M. Reilly and David E. Schimmelpfennig

Contributors 335

Index 343

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