Agricultural Innovation

Brian Wright () and Tiffany M. Shih

No 15793, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The achievements in agricultural innovation over the past century have been impressive, supporting large increases in agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a decentralized and competitive research system in the US. Recent intellectual property reforms motivated increased private investment, yet the private sector still relies upon basic research produced by the public sector. Problems with scientific freedom to operate as well as concentration in the agricultural biotechnology industry also emerged due to intellectual property rights. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the effective and efficient regulation of technologies, and in facilitating technology adoption.

JEL-codes: O31 O34 Q1 Q18 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
Note: EEE
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published as Agricultural Innovation , Tiffany Shih, Brian Wright. in Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors , Henderson and Newell. 2011

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15793.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Chapter: Agricultural Innovation (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:15793

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15793

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().