Creative India: tapping the full potential
India’s creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable measure on the size of India’s creative economy, explores the many challenges faced
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
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Perspective: Biotechnologies, Mertonian communism and schizophrenic intellectual property policies
<p>This paper explores recent episodes in the field of biotechnology research as regards intellectual property rights. It argues that public research institutes develop schizophrenic intellectual property policies.
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Rajasthan opens farm gates
<div>Rajasthan signs agreements with seven biotech companies to restructure agriculture. Read this special report on the fundamental shift in the way farming operates in India by giving private companies access to the state’s research facilities to test and market their hybrid seeds and other technologies.</div>
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Access, yes. sharing, no
<p>The access and benefit-sharing protocol on biodiversity may do little to deter multinationals from grabbing the planet’s resources.</p>
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Intellectual property rights, private investment in research, and productivity growth in Indian agriculture
<p>With the growth of private investment in developing-country agriculture, new advances in the biological sciences, and rapid integration of developing countries into the global trading system, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have become an important concern for policymakers, corporate decisionmakers, and many other players in the agricultural sector.
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Rising power of the knowledge commons
By ending ownership of ideas we can banish ignorance and change human history.
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Medicines patent pool receives license, backing from US government
The US government
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Interdependence of biodiversity and development under global change
This new volume of the CBD Technical Series presents an analysis of the systemic character of global change, biodiversity and human development, and the relationships between them. The report describes and evaluates the complicated relationships and dynamics between human and biological systems.
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From green to gene revolution: how farmers lost control of the seeds from agricultural modernisation
This document is developed by GRAIN and the Pesticides Eco-Alternatives Centre (PEAC) to raise Chinese farmers' awareness about the broad historical context of industrial agriculture, and how it paved the way for the introduction of modern varieties of crops and agricultural technologies.
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India bags win-win trade pact with Japan minus tradeoffs
Refuses To Take On Commitments On Govt Procurements & TRIPS INDIA has finalised a bilateral trade pact with Japan without taking on commitments on opening up government purchases to foreign companies and agreeing to tighter intellectual property regime. The final agreement is scheduled to be signed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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Displaced and marginalized: protecting the traditional knowledge, customary laws and forest rights of the Yanadi tribals of Andhra Pradesh
Most of the Yanadi community in Chittoor and Nellore districts are now seeking their livelihoods by getting jobs in other places and are living their life forgetting much about their age old rich traditions and customs. The net result is that traditional knowledge and customary practices that were in practice since times immemorial are dying out day by day.