| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 91 === This dissertation studied two important legal issues of agricultural biotechnology, that is, intellectual property rights and regulatory systems around agricultural biotechnology. I introduced an analyzing approach of political economy for this studies, that was called political ecology. For this sake, this dissertation was not typical legal studies, but should be seen as political economic analysis of law.
There are several questions to be asked and resolved in this dissertation, among other things, the most critical question is how the agricultural biotechnology and related industries were evolved and developed, especially from 1980s to 1990s. After recognizing agricultural biotechnological industries as the capital transformation of chemical industries, we can learn about the essential meaning of that newborn industry. In the industries leaded and dominated by few conglomerates, intellectual property rights would be used as strategic tools to control the resources and to expand their market shares.
On the other hand, the food safety and biological safety problems remained to impede the expanding effort of those life science industry giants. This dissertation also made a description of most related regulatory systems in European Union, Japan and United States, and probed into some legal issues about free trade and regulations, such as labeling obligations, precautionary principle and traceability regime.
Before entering to the last chapter, I illustrated some major issues of agricultural biotechnology in Taiwan, and then suggested some amendment in law, based on the findings of this dissertation.
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