Teaching/Training
Classes Taught
- Agripreneurship: Management of Agricultural Innovation and Enterprise Development Graduate course (400 hundred level), Cornell University
Workshops, Short Courses, Seminars
- Intellectual Property Management and University Plant Breeding Programs Shortcourse for Seed Industry Executives; Ooty, India (2008)
- Intellectual Property Management and Institutional Policy Shortcourse for Seed Industry Executives; hosted by Sathguru Management and Cornell-in-India, Hyderabad, India (2007)
- Commercialization of University Inventions: Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property and the role of Cornell's Center for Technology, Enterprise & Commercialization Guest lecturer in Plant Biology Graduate Student Meeting (March 3, 2005)
- Intellectual Property Management in a University Environment Faculty lecturer in Executive Shortcourse in Mussorie, India; hosted by Sathguru Management and Cornell-in-India (2005)
- Intellectual Property and International Development (VET ) Guest lecturer in graduate-level, 2-credit course in Veterinary Medicine (2004)
- Intellectual Property Management and Licensing in a University Environment Faculty lecturer in Executive Shortcourse in Goa, India; hosted by Sathguru Management and Cornell-in-India (2004)
- Intellectual Property and Plant Breeding (PLANT BREEDING 710) Guest lecturer in graduate-level, three-credit course in Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell (2001, 2002, 2003)
- Patents and Their Technological Implications (AEM 304) Guest lecturer in undergraduate level course in Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell (2002)
- Biological Property Management (NTRES 694) Instructor of graduate-level, three-credit course in Department of Natural Resources, Cornell (approved for 2001-2002)
- Policy Issues in Conservation Biology (NTRES 604) Instructor for one credit-hour seminar in Dept. of Natural Resources, Cornell, Spring 2001
- Patents on Wild Biota Genes: a Tragedy of the Commons? Guest lecture in Conservation & Sustainable Development (NTRES 618) and International Environmental Issues (NTRES 640) Cornell
- Intellectual Property and the Wild Biota Commons Guest lecture in Property and Community (Rural Soc. 640), Cornell, Fall 2000.
- Biotechnology, Patents and Conservation Guest lecture in Conservation Biology (NTRES 450) Cornell University, Fall 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
- Implications of Nested Property Rights of Wild Biota Guest lecture in Politics of the Environment (GOVT 703), Cornell University, Spring 1998.
- Technology, Law & Management Visiting Professor and internship coordinator for Syracuse University School of Law, Syracuse U., 1997, 1998.
Presentations
- Patents & Agricultural Biotechnology: A University Perspective Invited lecture; Expert Workshop on Public Goods and University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology, (sponsored by IFAFS), RTP, North Carolina, Nov. 2002.
- The Birds and the Bees and Property Rights: Effects of Biota Property on Entomological Research and Conservation Jugatae Lecture Series, Dept. of Entomology, Cornell, February 2001
- Biota Property Rights Invited lecture, Thailand Department of Agriculture, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2000.
- Intersection of Intellectual Property and Biological Conservation Law in the United States: A Public Policy Problem Natural Resource Policy Seminar, Cornell University, January 2000
- A Property Perspective on Conservation Biology Invited lecture, Montana State University, 1999 & 2000.
- Intellectual and Personal Property in Agbiotechnology Invited lecture, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Use of Agriculturally Important Genes in Biotechnology, Szeged, Hungary, October 1999.
- Biodiversity Conservation and Biota Property Regimes Invited lecture, CENICAFE Scientific Lecture Series, Manizales, Colombia, December 1999.
- International Issues in Wild Biota Property Invited lecture, EMBRAPA, Brasilia, Brazil, July 1999
- Ownership, Jurisdiction and Control of Wild Biota: Engineering Conservation Partnerships Invited lecture, International Symposium on Protected Area Management, Cornell University, September 1998
- A Paradigm Collision: Intellectual Property Law, Sovereignty in Wild Biota and Biological Conservation Law and Policy "Observations of Nature" Workshop, department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, December 1997.
- Access, Control, Ownership and Commercialization of Biological Resources of Yellowstone National Park Invited lecture, Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution of Thermophiles in Yellowstone National Park, conference at Old Faithful Lodge, Yellowstone NP, Sept. 1995
- The Elements of Bioprospecting Arrangements Invited lecture, Developing a Facilitating mechanism for the Equitable and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico 7-9 April 1994, hosted by the Intnatl. Academy of the Environment.
- Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Economic Development Invited lecture, UNIDO conference: International Economic Development, New Delhi, India, September, 1992
