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The Economic, Political and Legal Factors in Enhancing Partnership between Public and Private Sector in Developing Agricultural Biotechnology in Iran

Seyed Jamal F. Hosseini*, Somayeh Bahramnejad and Maryam Omidi Najafabadi

Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran (Iran).

ABSTRACT: This study was conducted to identify the political, economic and legal factors in attracting partnership between public and private sector in developing agricultural biotechnology in Iran. A questionnaire was developed and data collected from 66 agricultural biotechnology experts from research institutes and universities. The ordinal factor analysis was used and the results show the paying soft loans among economic variable, changes in economic policy among political variables and laws and regulations for intellectual property rights among legal variables were determined as the most important variables by order of their impacts.

KEYWORDS: Agriculture; Biotechnology; Iran; Legal; Economic; Political

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Hosseini S. J. F, Bahramnejad S, Najafabadi M. O. The Economic, Political and Legal Factors in Enhancing Partnership between Public and Private Sector in Developing Agricultural Biotechnology in Iran. Biosci Biotech Res Asia 2012;9(1)

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Hosseini S. J. F, Bahramnejad S, Najafabadi M. O. The Economic, Political and Legal Factors in Enhancing Partnership between Public and Private Sector in Developing Agricultural Biotechnology in Iran. Biosci Biotech Res Asia 2012;9(1). Available from: https://www.biotech-asia.org/?p=9418

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