The biotechnology revolution in global agriculture : innovation, invention, and investment in the canola industry /

This book reviews the global canola sector in order to identify fundamental trends resulting from the adoption of biotechnology. It examines the sector over an extended period, looking at its local origins, regional growth and international expansion; analyses public policy affecting commercializati...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
Series:Biotechnology in agriculture series ; 24.
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245 0 4 |a The biotechnology revolution in global agriculture :  |b innovation, invention, and investment in the canola industry /  |c edited by Peter W.B. Phillips, Professor of Agricultural Economics, NSERC/SSHRC Chair in Managing Knowledge-based Agri-food Development and George G. Khachatourians, Professor of Applied Microbiology and Food Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. 
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505 0 # |a Introduction and Overview / Peter W.B. Phillips and George G. Khachatourians -- Approaches to and Measurement of Innovation / Peter W.B. Phillips and George G. Khachatourians -- An Introduction to the History of Canola and the Scientific Basis for Innovation / George G. Khachatourians, Arthur K. Sumner and Peter W.B. Phillips -- Innovation in the Canola Sector / Peter W.B. Phillips -- The Evolving Industry / Peter W.B. Phillips -- Industrial Development and Collective Action / Richard S. Gray, Stavroula T. Malla and Peter W.B. Phillips -- The Role of Public-sector Institutions / Peter W.B. Phillips -- The Role of Private Firms / Peter W.B. Phillips -- The Impact of Location on Production / Peter W.B. Phillips -- Why Regulate the Market? / Peter W.B. Phillips -- Regulating Discovery / Peter W.B. Phillips -- Regulating Domestic Markets / Grant E. Isaac and Peter W.B. Phillips -- Regulating International Trade in Knowledge-based Products / Peter W.B. Phillips and Grant E. Isaac -- The Theory of the Gains to Research / Peter W.B. Phillips -- The Aggregate Gains from Research / Stavroula T. Malla, Richard S. Gray and Peter W.B. Phillips -- Distributing the Gains : Producers, Consumers and Others / Peter W.B. Phillips, Murray E. Fulton, Lynette Keyowski, Stavroula T. Malla and Richard S. Gray -- Lessons for the Future / Peter W.B. Phillips and George G. Khachatourians. 
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