Intellectual property protection and the international marketing of agricultural biotechnology: firm and host country impacts.

Abstract

This paper looks at the welfare impacts of weak intellectual property rights (IPRs), using a critical case study approach. It uses the empirical setting of Pioneer-Argentina S.A., a seller of bioengineered agricultural seeds, to test the existing theory of weak IPR impacts in the context of a net technology-exporting North and a net technology-importing South.

Structural change or logical incrementalism? Turbulence in the global meat system

“…We recognized the limitations of such qualitative research and attempted to address, exante, as many of the validation questions (see Goldsmith et al, 2001) as possible.…”