Propriedade intelectual e organização da P&D vegetal: evidências preliminares da implantação da Lei de Proteção de Cultivares
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This article discusses the recent Brazilian strategy in the field
of intellectual property rights applied to new varieties and seeds. Intel-lectual property is here understood as an economic tool to articulate and
to coordinate the economic and technical agents involved in the process
of development and diffusing of new varieties and seeds. The article
deals with data from the National Service on Variety Protection and also
with data from the Brazilian seed market. Among the main findings it
shows that the recent strategy of EMBRAPA (the national public resear-ch institution) along with the recent emergence of foundations of seed
production and commercialization (formed by small seed producers in
different regions of the country), has caused important changes in the seed
market structure. Of course, this movement has not been equal among
all species and all market branches, but it is actually impressive among
some of them (like corn and soybean seed markets). In this process,
public research institutions can play an important role, especially if they
are capable to build strong capabilities in dealing not only with genetics
and seed production, but also with the national and the international
regulatory frameworks.