@article{13641,
      recid = {13641},
      author = {Swanson, Timothy M.,},
      title = {The economics of managing biotechnologies /},
      pages = {xvi, 274 pages ;},
      note = {"This volume is the result of a workshop on Environmental  Policy, Agriculture and Biotechnology held in Rome, Italy  in May 2000"--Preface.},
      abstract = {The advent of new biotechnologies implies significant  changes in the world, both biologically and industrially.  Biologically, these new technologies represent changes on a  scale never before witnessed in the context of evolutionary  systems. How these systems will respond to these changes is  uncertain and potentially very significant. The first part  of this volume addresses these issues in a series of  chapters considering the manner in which societies might  analyse and manage these systemic responses to  biotechnological changes. The second part of the volume  addresses the industrial issues concerning biotechnologies.  One of the primary motivations for these changes is to  enhance the appropriability of the value of innovation  occurring within the life sciences sectors. Changing to a  property rights-based system of biotechnology has  implications for the nature of research and development  within these sectors, and the diffusion and distribution of  its benefits across the globe. Another set of chapters in  this volume sets out a framework for considering these  important industrial issues. The volume is the outcome of a  two-year project on the economics of managing  biotechnologies in agriculture. It is recommended to  academics and policy makers interested in the issues  concerning society's options in the management of this  process of technological change.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/13641},
}