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Title: | Essays on Intellectual Property Protection and Innovation in Agriculture |
Author(s): | Umeno, Soyoko |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Kesan, Jay P. |
Department / Program: | Agricultural and Consumer Economics |
Discipline: | Agricultural and Consumer Economics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Economics, Agricultural |
Abstract: | The last essay examines the characteristics of patents that contribute to future innovation and affect the rate of technical changes in the agricultural biotechnology industry. Results from this essay imply that innovation networks in agricultural biotechnology are rather undifferentiated, in which various inventors take advantage of the diffusion of knowledge facilitated by patents. Further, such a structure would have a limited contribution to promoting new entries into the technological niche. However, the seemingly undifferentiated structure is constructed by observable players who connect multiple technical niches in this industry. As a result, they provide a structure in the innovation network, which is likely to increase positive externalities within the network. |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 142 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82982 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3243015 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2006 |
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Dissertations - Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois