International trade and policies for genetically modified products /

• Corporate Author: International Conference of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: International trade > Congresses.; Genetic engineering industry > Congresses.; Intellectual property > Congresses.; Agricultural Economics.; Policy and Planning.; International Trade.; Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Plants.; Agricultural policy.; Agricultural trade.; Biotechnology.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Intellectual property rights.; International trade.; Labelling.; Monopoly.; Regulations.; Risk.; Transgenic plants.; Electronic books.
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This book addresses international trade and policy issues concerning agricultural biotechnology. The 16 chapters in this volume are edited and revised versions of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, held in Rave...

Table of Contents:

• Biotechnology Risks and Project Interdependence / Odin K. Knudsen and Pasquale L. Scandizzo
• Restricted Monopoly R&D Pricing : Uncertainty, Irreversibility and Non-market Effects / Robert D. Weaver and Justus Wesseler
• Biotechnology and the Emergence of Club Behaviour in Agricultural Trade / Monika Tothova and James F. Oehmke
• The Labelling of Genetically Modified Products in a Global Trading Environment / Stefania Scandizzo
• Tree Biotechnology : Regulation and International Trade / Roger A. Sedjo
• Commercialized Products of Biotechnology and Trade Pattern Effects / Stuart Smyth, William A. Kerr and Kelly A. Davey
• The Coexistence of GM and Non-GM Arable Crops in the EU : Economic and Market Considerations / Graham Brookes
• Research Spillovers in the Biotech Industry : the Case of Oilseed Rape / Richard S. Gray, Stavroula Malla and Kien Tran
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Flows of Agbiotech Intellectual Property / David Schimmelpfennig and John King
• The Impact of Regulation on the Development of New Products in the Food Industry / Klaus Menrad and Knut Blind
• Patents versus Plant Varietal Protection / Derek Eaton and Frank van Tongeren
• Governing Innovative Science : Challenges Facing the Commercialization of Plant-made Pharmaceuticals / Stuart Smyth, George G. Khachatourians and Peter W.B. Phillips
• Are GURTs Needed to Remedy Intellectual Property Failures and Environmental Problems with GM Crops? / Geoff Budd
• Economic Effects of Producing or Banning GM Crops / Janine Wronka and P. Michael Schmitz
• Opposition to Genetically Modified Wheat and Global Food Security / Faycal Haggui, Peter W.B. Phillips and Richard S. Gray
• International Impacts of Bt Cotton Adoption / George B. Frisvold, Russell Tronstad and Jeanne M. Reeves.