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Modelling Economic Returns to Plant Variety Protection in the UK
Bio-based and Applied Economics
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Modelling Economic Returns to Plant Variety Protection in the UK
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| Creator |
Srinivasan, Chittur
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| Subject |
Intellectual property rights
plant variety protection appropriability |
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| Description |
This paper attempts an empirical assessment of the incentive effects of plant variety protection regimes in the generation of crop variety innovations. A duration model of plant variety protection certificates is used to infer the private appropriability of returns from agricultural crop variety innovations in the UK over the period 1965-2000. The results suggest that plant variety protection provides only modest appropriability of returns to innovators of agricultural crop varieties. The val- ue distribution of plant variety protection certificates is highly skewed with a large proportion of innovations providing virtually no returns to innovators. Increasing competition from newer varieties appears to have accelerated the turnover of varie- ties reducing appropriability further. Plant variety protection emerges as a relatively weak instrument of protection.
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| Publisher |
Firenze University Press
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| Date |
2012-06-07
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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| Identifier |
https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3223
10.13128/BAE-10557 |
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| Source |
Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012); 151-174
2280-6172 2280-6180 |
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| Language |
eng
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| Relation |
https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3223/3223
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