Agricultural and Resource Economics (Sep 2017)
Refreiming of intellectual property assignment models in agricultural bioeconomy (institutional analysys)
Abstract
Agricultural bioeconomy’s opportunities to solve the problems of ecological and food security in the twentieth century have transformed the dynamics of the sector's development into a geopolitical factor, which has led to a growing public interest for the assignment of ownership rights to genetic resources and intellectual property of the sector. Purpose of the research is systematic analysis of intellectual property assignment models in modern agricultural bioeconomy. The research is based on general scientific knowledge and special methods of institutional analysis. There are two opposite groups of IP assignment legal models in the modern agricultural bioeconomy being taking into account – classical models based on obtaining exclusive rights of ownership and alternative models within the framework of fair use, generis sui and public domain doctrines. It is noted that there is a stable tendency of the growth of the group’s polarity due to the innovation activity development of agricultural public and private actors. Further progress of the intellectual property institutionalization processes in agricultural bioeconomy requires flexible mechanisms of public management based on the economic efficiency of assignment legal models but without losing connection with the humanistic context.
