Public-private collaboration in agricultural research [[electronic resource] ] : new institutional arrangements and economic implications / / edited by Keith O. Fuglie and David E. Schimmelpfennig

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910840668403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ames, Iowa, : Iowa State University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 1-281-81456-3; 9786611814564; 0-470-37696-1; 0-470-37674-0; 0-585-25068-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FuglieKeith Owen; SchimmelpfennigDavid
• Disciplina: 630.7; 630.72073
• Soggetti: Agriculture - Research - Economic aspects - United States; Agriculture - Research - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research; CONTENTS; Foreword by Susan E. Offutt; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1 Overview of the Volume; I. INNOVATIONS IN FINANCING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; 2 Trends in Agricultural Research Expenditures in the United States; 3 Financing Agricultural R&D in Rich Countries: What's Happening and Why; 4 Financing Agricultural Research with Prior Distortionary Taxes and Subsidies; II. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENTS IN PLANT AND ANIMAL RESEARCH; 5 A National Strategy for Plant Breeding in the United States; 6 The Role of Federal, State, and Private Institutions in Seed Technology Generation7 Public and Private Investments in Animal Research; Ill. INSTITUTIONS FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; 8 The CRADA Model for Public-Private Research and Technology Transfer in Agriculture; 9 The Research Consortium Model for Agricultural Research; 10 State Agricultural ; Experiment Stations and Intellectual Property Rights; IV. INTERNATIONAL SPILLOVERS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; 11 Agricultural Technology Spillovers; 12 Significance of International Spillovers from Public Agricultural Research13 The Private Sector and International Technology Transfer in Agriculture; 14 Assessing U.S. Benefits of Training Foreign Agricultural Scientists; CONCLUSION; 15. Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research: The Future; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Historically the United States has looked to the publicly funded agricultural research institutions at the Department of Agriculture and land-grant universities as the primary sources of new agricultural science and technology. However, during the past se