Plant breeders' rigth legislation, enforcement and R&D: lessons for developing countries
This paper examines the experiences of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Argentina and Chile with Plant Breeder's Rights legislation. PBRs had their most obvious impact on private R&D in the United Kingdom where the number of firms conducting R&D went from 0 to 23 between 1960 and 1981. Similar legislation appears to have stimulated private R&D on Argentine wheat, and French wheat breeding. In the U.S. PBRs led to increase private plant breeding on soybeans. In Chile and Argentina there is no evidence that PBRs stimulated more private research. The policy implications are (1) that some type of property rights to seem to be a necessary, if not sufficient condition for private research on self-pollinated crops and (2) enforcement of PBRs can be strengthened by investing in complementary institutions such as plant royalty bureaus, seed inspection services, and courts
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1990
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