@article {521,
	title = {Biodiversity prospecting},
	journal = {Geneflow},
	volume = {12},
	year = {1994},
	month = {1994},
	pages = {43-82},
	abstract = {In September 1991, the Institiuto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), a Costa Rican private non-profit organization and the U.S. pharmaceutical firm Merck \& Company entered into an agreement on {\textquoteright}biodiversity prospecting{\textquoteright} - the exploration of biodiversity of commercially valuable genetic resources. Under the terms of the agreement, Merck provided over US$1million for a limited number of extracts from accessions gathered by Costa Rican ecochemists. The partners have agreed on a royalty-sharing system if any of the material is commercialized. (author)},
	keywords = {intellectual property rights},
	author = {Anonymous}
}
