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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Facilitating BioTrade in a challenging access and benefit sharing environment
The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing is a new multilateral environmental agreement under the CBD, seeking to clarify definitions, issues of scope and coverage of ABS, and specific actions
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National Intellectual Property Rights Policy
The Union Cabinet approved the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy that will lay the future roadmap for intellectual property in India. The Policy recognises the abundance of creative and
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture, 26/04/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture, 26/04/2016. Protection of Plant Varieties & Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPV&FRA) has taken the following necessary steps to implement
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Freeing crop genetics through the Open Source Seed Initiative
<p>For millennia, seeds have been freely available to use for farming and plant breeding without restriction. Within the past century, however, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have threatened this
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Cancel GEAC meeting on GM mustard on Feb 5: Farmers' unions
Farmer unions, including BKS, today demanded that the Environment Ministry cancel the meeting of the regulatory body GEAC scheduled for February 5 to discuss the much-debated genetically modified (GM)
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India needs home-grown GM food to stop starvation
<p>Indian scientists must develop domestic genetically modified crops rather than rely on unsuitable foreign technology.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.19238!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/529439a.pdf"
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India’s intellectual property-based biomedical start-ups
<p>I have posed 50 questions each to the founders of 50 young Indian biomedical firms that are less than 5 years old. The questions were on the following themes: the backgrounds of the founders and their
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India suggests insertion of key points on finance and tech transfer in the Paris draft text
Making its suggestions to the latest draft text of the Paris climate agreement, India on Monday pitched for inserting specific paragraph on the issue of finance and transfer of technology in the text.
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Technology transfer between India and Malawi: Supporting Development beyond Intellectual Property Rights
The year 2015 may well go down as a landmark year, with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and some agreements at the Conference of Parties (COP) 21. Expectations from both are huge.
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Odisha okays new industrial policy
Clears Rs 1,500 cr SCRIPS project, Biju Expressway "The IPR 2015 has been approved after several rounds of consultation with different administrative departments and industry associations. Stress has