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.
The point I want to make here is that kind of research is paid for with public dollars and so the real objective in creating useful things out of that is to maximize the public good and not to maximize the economic return. For those amongst us who are technology transfer officers, I'm going to sugg...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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