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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World intellectual property indicators 2010
The World Intellectual Property Indicators 2010 provides a wide range of indicators covering various areas of intellectual property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs and microorganisms.
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Patents and clean energy: bridging the gap between evidence and policy
The role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the transfer of climate change technologies has emerged as a particularly contentious issue in the past two years.
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The global competitiveness report 20102011
More than three decades after its first publication in 1979, The Global Competitiveness Report series continues to provide the world
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EU challenged on generics seizures
After months of speculation, Brazil and India have launched a WTO dispute against the EU and the Netherlands over the seizure of generic drugs in transit.
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Fault lines in the 2010 Seeds Bill
The 2010 Seeds Bill that has been introduced in Parliament does address some of the major concerns in the aborted 2004 version, but strangely a number of important correctives
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Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests 211 report on the Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008
The leit motif of the Bill is to create guidelines and institutional framework in academic and research institutions. This Bill will give rise to number of patents because now every scientist getting public money would be under an obligation by law to patent what is patentable. It will also increase the flow of knowledge to industry.
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Sonias root concerns stay in new Seeds Bill
About five years after Sonia Gandhi raised a red flag on the Seeds Bill, 2004, on the grounds of
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Bio-business in brief: a bit about technology transfer
What is technology transfer and what does it need to succeed? Various factors concerning the scientist, the academic institution, a fresh entrepreneur or an existing company, government policies and the environment contribute to greater efficiency in transferring technologies from academia to industry. These factors are discussed here with reference to the situation in the US and India.
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India-EU trade deal likely by year-end
Following an informal dialogue on the India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA) last week, both sides are confident that the pact will be finalised by the end of the year. Along with meeting the EU
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Intellectual property, technology transfer and manufacture of low-cost HPV vaccines in India
An empirical study of the impact of patenting and licensing on regional manufacturing of human papilloma virus vaccines to help improve vaccine affordability and access.