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.
Proprietary protection is, I think, one of the issues and I think we have problems at the moment with universities filing too many patents and not doing a careful assessment... a back of the envelope assessment before they file those patents, so they've got too many costs and so on. There's only a ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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