Resolving FTO Barriers in GM Canola

Viktoriya Galushko, Richard Gray, Stuart Smyth and Paul Arnison

No 188092, 14th ICABR Conference, June 16-18, 2010, Ravello, Italy from International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR)

Abstract: The development of intellectual property (IP) protection in plant breeding brought much needed private investment into canola research in the 1980s, but at the same time, fragmented research and IP ownership. In the 1990s, the biotechnology industry tried to addressed the growing IP fragmentation through a series of mergers and aquisitions. As we show through a survey of canola breeders, these changes reduced the sharing of knowledge in both the public and private sector, significantly increasing the cost of conducting breeding research. In the past decade, firms have clearly moved away from mergers and acquisitions and towards cross-licensing of IP. What remains to be seen, is whether these agreements get to the root of the freedom to operate (FTO) problem that exists in agricultural biotechnology.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.188092

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