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Sixteen contributions, arising from the June, 1998 conference "Knowledge Generation and Transfer: Implications for Agriculture in the 21st Century," held at the U. of California, Berkeley campus, are presented by Wolf (natural resources, Cornell U.) and Zilberman (agriculture and resource economics, U. of California). A combination of academics and World Bank researchers analyze the changing nature of knowledge generation in a world where intellectual property rights are steadily moving away from public universities and organizations and into the hands of private institutions. After exploring theoretical issues of assessing knowledge diffusion and the public/private axis, empirical studies look at such issues as plant biotechnology knowledge networks in the US and the EU, the creation of offices of technology transfer for the privatization of university agricultural innovations, and the changing nature of land grant university relations with private institutions. Although the authors differ somewhat in emphasis, all are supporters of neo-liberal privatization schemes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
