NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING (NIBGE): MUTANT SPIDER-COTTON

Abstract

The case illustrates a crop variety development and registration process employed in Pakistan, and provides an account of the enablers and challenges faced by a public sector biotechnology based R&D organization, while developing and registering a state of the art innovation, namely, Hvt cotton variety. The case also provides a useful ground to discuss factors involved in mass production and commercialization of crop varieties such as intellectual property rights and the roles which multinational organizations can play in this regard.