Managing Agricultural Biotechnology: Addressing Research Program Needs and Policy Implications
Readership
Research managers in biotechnology, animal and plant breeding, agricultural policy and development
Key Features
• Written by experts from around the world including Chile, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia,Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and the United States
• Includes syntheses, reviews and case studies
• Essential reading for both practising research managers and academics
Main Description
Based on ISNAR seminars, this book provides information and case studies distilling information on policies for development and implementation of new agricultural biotechnologies. It covers key managerial and policy issues that research directors, program managers and policymakers face when building capacity and competency in biotechnology.
Main Contents
Foreword, Marc Van Montagu
I. Addressing Management and Policy Issues
• Identifying Needs and Priorities: A Decision-Making Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology, Joel Cohen, Cesar Falconi, and John Komen
• The Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms: Relevance for the South, Robert Tripp
• Agricultural Biotechnology Research Indicators and Managerial Considerations in Four Developing Countries, Cesar Falconi
II. Setting and Implementing Priorities
• Methods for Priority Setting in Agricultural Biotechnology, Cesar Falconi
• Setting Research Priorities for the Chilean Biotechnology Program, Thomas Braunschweig, Willem Janssen, Carlos Muρoz, and Peter Rieder
• Managing Biotechnology in AARD, Indonesia—Priorities, Funding, and Implementation, Sugiono Moeljopawiro
III. Maximizing Benefits from Resources
• Issues in Human Resource Management and Development, Bruce Holloway
• Managing Bioprospecting for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity, Ana Sittenfeld and Annie Lovejoy
• Managing Genetic Resources and Biotechnology at IRRI’s Rice Genebank, Mike Jackson
• International Collaboration in Agricultural Biotechnology, John Komen
• Public-Private Biotechnology Research and International Collaboration, Joel Cohen
• Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology: Lessons Learned and Future Strategies, Katharina Jenny and Ernst Schaltegger
IV. Ensuring Environmental Responsibility
• Biosafety Management: Key to the Environmentally Responsible Use of Biotechnology, Patricia Traynor
• Formulating Guidelines for Field Testing in the Philippines, Emerenciana B. Duran
• Addressing Public Acceptance Issues for Biotechnology: Experiences from Japan, Yutaka Tabei
• Balancing Needs for Productivity and Sustainability – Genetic Engineering of Rice at IRRI, John Bennett
• Managing Target Pest Adaptation: The Case of Bt Transgenic Plant Deployment, Mark Whalon and Deborah L. Norris
V. Managing Intellectual Property, Proprietary Science, and Technology Transfer
• Agricultural Biotechnology and the Protection of Intellectual Property – Implications for Decision Makers, Michael Blakeney, Joel Cohen and Stephen Crespi
• Agricultural Research and the Management of Intellectual Property, Michael Blakeney
• Managing Intellectual Property in EMBRAPA: A Question of Policy and a Change of Heart, Maria Josι Sampaio, and Elza A.B. Brito da Cunha
• Managing Proprietary Science and Institutional Inventories for Agricultural Biotechnology, Joel Cohen, Cesar Falconi, John Komen, Silvia Salazar and Michael Blakeney
• International Collaboration: Intellectual Property Management and Partner-Country Perspectives, Cathy L. Ives, Karim M. Maredia and Frederic Erbisch
• Industrial Research and Business Development: Experiences from the Singapore Institute of Molecular Agrobiology, Tai-Sen Soong
• Introducing Transgenic Crops in India: A Joint Venture Approach, Ellora Mubashir
Appendix
• Accessing Electronic Information, John Komen and Patricia Traynor
