Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Patent and Other Private Legal Rights for Biotechnology Inventions (Intellectual Property Rights - IPR) -- 2 Intellectual Property Rights of Plant Varieties and of Biotechnology in the European Union -- 3 Intellectual Property Rights under the Convention on Biological Diversity -- 4 An Economic Approach to Identifying an 'Effective sui generis System' for Plant Variety Protection Under TRIPs* -- 5 Recent Intellectual Property Rights Controversies and Issues at the CGIAR -- 6 Economics of Intellectual Property Rights for Agricultural Technology -- 7 The Market Value of Farmers' Rights -- 8 International Crop Breeding in a World of Proprietary Technology -- 9 Knowledge Management and the Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology -- 10 Comparing Allocation of Resources in Public and Private Research* -- 11 Biotechnology Inventions: What Can We Learn from Patents? -- 12 Biotechnology Inventions: Patent Data Evidence -- 13 Property Rights and Regulations for Transgenic Crops in North America* -- 14 Intellectual Property Rights, Canola and Public Research in Canada -- Index.