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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Science and "common man"
<p>The demands of global capital, mediated through the market, are increasingly driving the trajectory of advances in science. Today this acts as the principal barrier to the advance of science as a knowledge system that is designed to serve the needs of the people. The needs of a neo-liberal economic order valorises immediate gain as the principal driver of science.</p>
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Patently dangerous
A proposal to draft a plurilateral anti-counterfeiting treaty among developed countries needs global resistance. (Editorial)
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Tech to help control climate: Figueres
WITH the tone set for Cancun, the aim is to work towards an agreement on key issues that could help smooth the way for a global deal. A movement in technology would go a long way in getting the much-needed movement in climate change negotiations.
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Differences crop up again at Bonn
Near-Resolved Issue Of Putting Up Technology Mechanism Reopens For Debate At Climate Meet Urmi A Goswami BONN
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Now, puppets with a robotic touch
Fifteen years ago, when Anupama Hosakere quit a promising career as an engineer in the United States and began pursuing the dying art of puppetry in India, she never imagined that one day the twain would meet.
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Green patents corralled
Driven by efforts to curb fossil-fuel use and concerns about the security of energy supplies, the number of applications for renewable-energy patents is booming. But the patents are scattered across many databases, in different formats that are not readily searchable, leading to a lack of clarity over who owns specific energy-technology patents, and in which regions.
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India as needy of free-trade pact as us: EU ambassador
KARTIKAY MEHROTRA
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EU assures FTA wont lead to costlier life-saving drugs
THE European Commission has said the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with India will not affect production of cheap life-saving medicines in the country.
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The politics of therapeutic evaluation in Asian medicine
National and international health policies tend to equate the