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Economic Analysis of Biotechnology Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Richard K. Perrin
Richard K. Perrin*
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Department of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University
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The potential role for economics in biotechnology research does not differ from the role of economics in examining research in general. There is a substantial literature on that topic. Hans Binswanger has posed four questions that an economic analysis of technical change should address. These questions provide a useful roadmap for thinking about the role of economics in biotechnology research.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 73 - 76
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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