Long-run growth in many models is the product of two terms: the effective number of
researchers and their research productivity. We present evidence from various industries …

Throughout history and in every part of the world, innovation in agriculture has played
crucial roles in economic development by increasing farm productivity, enhancing the …

The following chapters are presented:(1) An overview of intellectual property systems
(Lesser, W.),(2) Guidance from economic theory (Prima Braga, CA),(3) Survey of empirical …

Persistence Pays: US Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D
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Recent criticisms of the “green revolution” wheats concern the effects of their popularity on
crop diversity and the consequences for productivity and conservation. We use a Just‐Pope …

Empirical studies indicate high economic returns from the public's investment in agricultural
research. Yet, even as society is placing broader demands on the research system, taxpayer …

In our model of partially appropriable invention, if the US Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA)
of 1970 succeeded in strengthening intellectual property protection for plant breeders, it …

The genetic improvement of food staple crops cultivated by small-scale farmers is a well-
established route to increasing agricultural productivity and improving rural livelihoods. But …

This comprehensive survey of modern plant breeding traces its history from the earliest
experiments at the dawn of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present …

Policy cauldrons have a way of fermenting vigorously even in the absence of applied heat,
presumably because public investment in policy analysis obliges activity, even when there is …