Journal article
Impact of intellectual property rights on genetic diversity: The case of U.S. wheat
Contemporary economic policy, Vol.12(1), pp.102-112
01/01/1994
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1994.tb00416.x
Abstract
Some economists studying intellectual property rights (IPR) imply that the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) of 1970 will reduce genetic diversity (Schmid, 1985). They feel that: 1. Stronger IPR will encourage private plant breeding which will crowd out public sector breeding. 2. Private breeding will not contribute to genetic diversity because private breeders use popular public varieties as parents and need to perform only the minimum amount of cosmetic breeding to qualify a variety as new under PVPA. 3. PVPA uniformity and stability requirements make retaining genetic variability difficult for private breeders. PVPA did have a limited positive impact on private wheat breeding but did not lead to a decrease in public wheat research. Instead, public wheat research increased rapidly after PVPA passed. Regression analysis of genetic diversity in Kansas, Nebraska, and Montana indicates that public sector research has increased diversity in farmers' wheat fields and that PVPA has had a small positive impact on diversity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Impact of intellectual property rights on genetic diversity: The case of U.S. wheat
- Creators
- Carl Pray - Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyMary Knudson
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Contemporary economic policy, Vol.12(1), pp.102-112
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1994.tb00416.x
- ISSN
- 1074-3529
- eISSN
- 1465-7287
- Publisher
- Western Economic Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/1994
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380548302771
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