Ralph W.F. Hardy is President and co-founder of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC), a consortium of over 35 not-for-profit agricultural research and educational institutions in Canada and the United States that provides an open forum for discussion on the safe, efficacious, and equitable development of agricultural biotechnology.
Previously, Hardy was President of BioTechnica International and President and CEO of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. He was with DuPont for 21 years, where he led the research-driven diversification into pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, and bio-based products.
Ralph Hardy received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Most common economic model in terms of tech transfer is really sponsored research and sponsored research, its main objective is to produce new information but out of that comes a byproduct on occasion, a potential innovation as we've heard about examples earlier. This is not a huge economic benefit ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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