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Modelling Economic Returns to Plant Variety Protection in the UK

Bio-based and Applied Economics

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Title Modelling Economic Returns to Plant Variety Protection in the UK
 
Creator Srinivasan, Chittur S.; University of Reading
Department of Agricultural & Food Economics
 
Subject Intellectual property rights; plant variety protection; appropriability; economic returns
Q16; C41
 
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.
 
Publisher Bio-based and Applied Economics
Bio-based and Applied Economics
 
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Date 2012-06-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/10557
http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/download/10557/11148
10.13128/BAE-10557
 
Source Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 1, No 2 (2012); 151-174
Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 1, No 2 (2012); 151-174
2280-6172
2280-6180
 
Language eng
 
Relation 10.13128/BAE-10557