Welfare Evaluation of Private R&D for Agricultural Innovations

GianCarlo Moschini and Harvey Lapan

No 279674, Economic Analysis of Research and Promotion, March 21-22, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana from Regional Research Projects > NECC-63: Research Committee on Commodity Promotion

Abstract: This paper reviews the nature of intellectual property rights in agriculture and outlines a modeling framework that accounts for relevant institutional features of agricultural R&D. The analysis emphasizes vertical market linkages in a model where agricultural innovations adopted by farmers are produced upstream by input suppliers. It is argued that the conventional assumption of competitive pricing cannot hold when new technologies are produced by private firms, because such innovations are typically protected by intellectual property rights (such as patents) which confer (limited) monopoly rights to the discoverer. The implications of intellectual property rights for the welfare evaluation of agricultural R&D are derived, and it is shown that conventional methods usually overestimate the welfare gains from agricultural innovation.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 2
Date: 1997-03
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.279674

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