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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual
Property—This database identifies and describes U.S.
utility patents on inventions in biotechnology and other biological
processes-with issue dates between 1976 and 2000-that are used
in food and agriculture. The database also provides information
about the ownership of these patents, whether patents are held
in the public or private sector, and changes in patent ownership
due to firm mergers, acquisitions, and spinoffs.
Plant Breeding Research and Development—A
summary of, and data about, the growing and changing nature of plant
breeding activity in the United States. Based on a 1994 national
plant breeding study conducted by Dr. Ken Frey of Iowa State University,
the data provide the level of plant breeding effort (in terms of
staff years and estimated expenditures) in the U.S. by academia
and the public and private sector. The study is a comprehensive
accounting of national plant breeding efforts, and provides the
only national benchmark to compare current and/or future efforts
and developments in this critically important area of research.
Trends in Extension
staffing—An important part of the USDA agricultural research
and education system is Extension activities that deliver research
findings to farmers. One indicator of the level of Extension activities
is the allocation of personnel. This data product provides two datasets
reflecting Extension staffing.
Agricultural Productivity in the
United States—This data set provides estimates of productivity growth in the United States for 1948-2004, and estimates of productivity growth and relative productivity levels across States for 1960-1999.
Public and Private Funding of
Agricultural R&D in the United States—Time series data
for public and private funding of agricultural research and development
from 1970 to 2001 (public sector) or from 1970 to 1998 (private
sector). Data are available as nominal figures, or corrected for
inflation.
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