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

• Pubblicazione: Ames, Iowa, : Iowa State University Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 630/.7/2073
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - Research - Economic aspects - United States; Agriculture - Research - United States
• Altri autori: FuglieKeith Owen SchimmelpfennigDavid
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Public-private collaboration in agricultural research
• ISBN: 1-281-81456-3; 9786611814564; 0-470-37696-1; 0-470-37674-0; 0-585-25068-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910876576403321
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