Professors Sergio Lence and Dermot Hayes (and co-authors Julian M. Alston; John Stephen C. Smith) have won the ‘Outstanding ERAE Journal Article’ award for 2016 for their paper “Intellectual property in plant breeding:comparing different levels and forms of protection” (first article of the first issue of 2016) by the editorial board of the European Review of Agricultural Economics (the journal of the European Association of Agricultural Economists).