Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Introduction -- 1 Regulation of GM Crops: Shaping an International Regime -- 2 The Evolving GMO Food Trade Policy Debate: Towards a Global Regulatory Regime? -- 3 International Proposals to Regulate Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Genetic Resources -- 4 Genetically Engineered Food Labelling: Global Policy Polarization -- 5 Conflict and Consensus-building: International Commercial Policy and Agricultural Biotechnology -- 6 The Rationale Behind WTO Agreements and Agricultural GMO Controversy1 -- 7 Trade Restrictions on Genetically Engineered Foods: the Application of the TBT Agreement -- 8 Environmental Liability and Research and Development in Biotechnology: a Real Options Approach -- 9 Should the Public Sector Conduct Genomics R&D? -- 10 The Case for Differentiated Appropriability in Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Varieties -- 11 Biotechnology and Developing Countries: the Struggle over Intellectual Property Rights and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation -- 12 Intellectual Property Strategy in the Context of Inter-organizational Relations: the Case of International Agricultural Research -- 13 R&D Incentives for GM Seeds: Restricted Monopoly, Non-market Effects, and Regulation -- 14 Agricultural Biotech R&D Structure: Cyclical or Not? -- 15 The Innovation System in Agro-food Biotechnology - is it European? -- 16 How Firm Characteristics Influence Innovative Activity in Agricultural Biotechnology -- 17 Dynamic Pricing of GM Crop Traits -- 18 Identity Preservation, Segregation and Traceability: Marketplace Features and Uses -- 19 Segmentation of GMO and non-GMO Soybean Markets under Identity Preservation Costs and Government Price Supports -- 20 EU Traceability and the US Soybean Sector -- 21 Segregation of Non-biotech Maize and Soybeans: Who Bears the Cost?.

22 Future Impact of New Technologies: Three Scenarios, their Competence Gaps and Research Implications -- 23 Ex Ante Welfare Effects of Agricultural Biotechnology in the European Union: the Case of Transgenic Herbicide Tolerant Sugarbeet1 -- 24 The Economic Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnology on International Trade, Consumers, and Producers: the Case of Maize and Soybeans in the USA -- Index.