IPR/ BIOTECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Faculty

Recently Graduated Students

Current Students

Faculty

Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE)
  • Gordon Rausser
    Area of Interests:
    critical role of intellectual property rights in agricultural biotechnology, and general public science and technology policy.
  • Brian Wright
    Area of Interests:
    economics of conservation and evaluation of genetic resources, economics of patents and licensing, patenting of research inputs, effects of IPR on non-profit users of biotech, effects of IPR on industrial structure in agricultural inputs and on the agricultural sector as a whole. Click here for related papers.
  • David Zilberman
    Area of Interests:
    innovation and IPR. Issues include: clearing house to IPR; technology transfer from university to private sector; marketing activities and technology adoption. Click here for related papers.
    Economics Department (ECON)
  • Richard J. Gilbert
  • Bronwyn Hall

    Haas School of Business
  • David C. Mowery
  • David J. Teece
  • Carl Shapiro

    School of Law
  • Mark Lemley
  • Peter S. Menell
  • Robert P. Merges

    Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP)
  • Suzanne A. Scotchmer

    School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS)
  • Hal R. Varian
  • Pamela Samuelson

    Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (PMB)
  • Peggy Lemaux


    Recently Graduated Students:

  • Eran Binenbaum (Advisor: Brian Wright)
    Thesis Title:
    "Intellectual Property Strategy and Inter-Organizational Relations: The Case of International Agricultural Research"
    "Strings Attached: A Model of Corporate Sponsoring of Nonprofit Research"
    "Grants versus Contracts in the Funding of Academic Research"

    Current Position: School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia

  • Gregory Graff (Advisors: David Zilberman and Brian Wright)
    Thesis Title:
    "Sources of Biological Innovation for Agriculture"


    Current Students:
  • Guanming Shi (Advisor: Brian Wright)
    Area of Interests:
    commodity bundling and the leverage of market power with application to agricultural biotechnology industry, role of compulsory licensing and Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTS) in facilitating public-private collaboration in innovation.
  • Kensuke Kubo (Advisor: Brian Wright)
    Area of Interests:
    plant variety protection in developing countries, agricultural seed markets, pharmaceutical patent protection in developing countries.
  • Ruth Uwaifo (Advisor: Brian Wright)
    Area of Interests:
    TRIPS and possible impact of its implementation on developing countries, Enforcement and implementation of international IP laws in developing countries.
  • Zhen Lei (Advisor: Brian Wright)
    Area of Interests:
    impacts of intellectual protection of research tools on freedom to operate in bioscience research


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    Last Updated on October 2, 2004
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    shi@are.berkeley.edu