Friday March 25
2:15 – 3:45
Gregory Graff (Colorado State) and Brian Wright (UC-Berkeley)
Structuring Public Private Research Alliances: Allocating Intellectual Property and Control Rights to Optimize Collaborative R&D in Bioenergy
David Bullock (Illinois) and Flordeliza Bardey (Philippine Rice Research Institute)
A Discussion about the “Efficiency” of US Ethanol Policy
Jessica Schuring, Wallace Huffman, and Xing Fan (Iowa State)
Genetically Modified Crops and Midwestern Farm Production: Evidence at the State Level over 1960-2004
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:30
Guanming Shi (Wisconsin)
An Analysis of Productivity of Biotech Seeds: The Case of US Corn Hybrids
Kyriakos Drivas (UC-Berkeley), Zhen Lei (Penn State), and Brian Wright (UC-Berkeley)
The Role of Exclusive Licensing in Follow-on Research of Academic Patented Inventions
Sun Ling Wang, David Schimmelpfennig, and Eldon Ball (USDA – ERS)
Is Agricultural Productivity Slowing? The Case of US and EU Countries
Saturday March 26
9:00 – 10:30
Panel Discussion led by Carl Pray, Timothy Dalton, David Zilberman and others.
Can NC-1034 play a role in strengthening African agricultural science and technology policy? Strengthening African agricultural science and technology policy
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15
Keith Fuglie (USDA, ERS)
Global Agricultural Productivity Growth
George Frisvold (Arizona)
Resistance Management and Sustainable Use of Biotechnology
David Bullock (Illinois)
A New Measure of the Producer Welfare Effects of Technological Change
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch / NC-1034 Business Meeting / Adjourn
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