This chapter presents an overview of: public and private sector agricultural research; private funding of research by farmers; public-private collaboration in conducting research and development; and public research reform in an era of privatization.

This book synthesizes contemporary experiences with changing public and private sector roles in funding and executing agricultural research, with emphasis on developing countries. The book consists of 15 chapters organized into four distinct parts. Part I provides a brief overview of the current...

This chapter provides an economic rationale for public-private cooperation (PPC) in research in terms of potential benefits, risks and costs. Conditions conducive to PPC and obstacles to successful PPC are outlined. The chapter then reviews experiences of PPC in the Netherlands with special...

This chapter explains the difficulties encountered in developing more extensive and intimate patterns of public-private sector interaction in the Indian agricultural research system, and draws implications for reform. An innovation systems framework is used to explore this problem from a wider...