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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Break the Deadlock
In 1995, many in India were outraged to learn that a university in the US was granted a patent to make and sell haldi turmeric for its wound healing properties. Patents are usually given to creations that are deemed useful and involve an inventive st
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Tribals lose out as herbal drug is stuck in IPR jam
India s wonder drug Jeevani developed by the Thiruvananthapuram based Tropical Botanic Garden Research Institute tbgri using the traditional knowledge of Kerala s Kani tribe hit the headlines a few years ago. It was heralded as the world s first pro
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Inventors gain
But the South feels cheated
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PIPRA: An attempt to hoodwink the Third World
The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS agreement, are choking knowledge transfers from the industrialised world to developing countries. And with private c
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We need a revolution in global trade
<font class='UCASE'>Walden Bello</font> is professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines, and executive director of the Bangkok based research and advocacy organisation Focus on the Global South. At the Fifth World
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Africa proposes
Recognise community knowledge. Do not patent life
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GI woe
Geographical indication debate intensifies as EU ups the ante
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Fortification plans
China is tightening norms toprotect scientific and technological research within its boundaries. The country's ministry of science and technology wants all public and private organisations involved
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Rice row
US eyeing patent on Thai jasmine rice?
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Soul searching
IPRs lead to shoddy research, admits world s oldest scientific academy