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SUMMARY:Socio-economic impact of agricultural science: the European story 
 - Professor Peter Midmore\, Aberysthwyth University
DTSTART:20151028T160000Z
DTEND:20151028T170000Z
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CONTACT:Clare Eaves
DESCRIPTION:Public support of agricultural science depends on free-rider a
 nd market failure arguments\, and also the existence of the substantial re
 turns on investment that can be generated. However\, in the European conte
 xt there are barriers to understanding of both the nature and the extent o
 f the socioeconomic and environmental benefits that arise from government-
 funded agricultural research. Data gaps are an immediate problem\, but the
  issues of organisational change in science and the increasing influence o
 f the corporate sector in determining research agendas also merit investig
 ation. This seminar will provide a perspective of work-in-progress in the 
 Impresa project\, with discussion of measurement\, analysis and interpreta
 tion of the public and private good aspects of science-based innovations\,
  and identify specific controversies that remain unsettled.\n\n\nBiography
 \n\nPeter Midmore is an agricultural economist working at Aberystwyth Univ
 ersity\, whose research  interests are in rural development and agricultur
 al policy analysis. Since 2001 he had been Professor of Economics in the S
 chool of Management and Business\, and is currently also Research Director
  of the Institute of Management\, Law and Information Science.  He is coor
 dinator of the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme Impresa pro
 ject (http://www.impresa-project.eu).\n
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
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