跨国种业公司并购形成的国际种业竞争新格局变化趋势研究——以知识产权为例

Research on the Changing Trend of the New Pattern of International Seed Industry Competition Formed by the Merger of Multinational Seed Industry Companies——Take Intellectual Property as an Example

跨国种业企业第三次大规模的兼并重组形成了新一轮的国际种业竞争格局,而知识产权保护则是跨国种业公司兼并重组的最大动力之一。研究跨国种业公司并购形成的核心知识产权的积聚重组,更能深度考察国际种业竞争新格局的变化趋势。趋势之一,美国、日本和欧盟仍然是全球育种研发创新活动的主导者和垄断者,大规模的兼并重组,实现了技术和资源的整合,提升了国际种业集中度,全球种业42. 75%的专利申请量集中在美国、日本和欧盟,并且掌握着全球64. 68%的DNA重组技术专利。趋势之二,知识产权已经成为跨国种业公司保持市场竞争优势的有力武器,跨国种业公司是核心种业技术专利的拥有者,拜耳/孟山都、中国化工/先正达和杜邦先锋/陶氏的育种专利申请量占全球总育种专利申请量将近14%,全球农作物的转化体81%以上被跨国种业公司所掌握。对国际种业新格局的变化趋势进行研究分析,可以为我国种业兼并重组提供有价值的政策建议。

The third large-scale merger and reorganization of multinational seed companies have formed a new international seed pattern,intellectual property protection is one of the biggest drivers of cross-border seed mergers and acquisitions.Studying the accumulation and reorganization of the core intellectual property rights formed by the merger of multinational seed companies,it is possible to further examine the changing trend of the new pattern of international seed industry competition.One of the trends,the United States,Japan and Europe are still the leaders and monopolists of global breeding research and development innovation activities,large-scale mergers and acquisitions,achieving the integration of technology and resources,and promoting the concentration of international seed industry,42.75%of patent applications of the global seed industry is concentrated in the United States,Japan and the European Union,and holding 64.68%of the global DNA recombination technology patents.Trend 2,intellectual property has become a powerful weapon for multinational seed companies to maintain market competitive advantage,and multinational seed companies is the owner of core technology patents.Bayer/Monsanto,China Chemical/Syngenta and DuPont Pioneer/Dow’s seed patent applications for global breeding is nearly 14%,and more than 81%of the global crop transformants are controlled by multinational seed companies.Research and analysis on the changing trend of the new pattern of international seed industry competition can provide valuable policy advice for China’s seed industry mergers and acquisitions.