Science and Development Network
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Intellectual property rights form a cornerstone of the global knowledge economy. But as the economic importance of these rights has grown, so too has controversy over their impacts on developing countries.
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Cooperation not compulsion on clean technology transfer
Compulsory licensing of clean technologies will only be needed if developed countries duck UNFCCC obligations, says Dalindyebo Shabalala.
Support Kenyan researchers to innovate more
Kenyans must use patents to protect their innovations and use local know-how to speed up discoveries, says a Business Daily Africa editorial.
7 April 2009
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Source: Business Daily Africa
6 March 2009
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Source: The Lancet
A growing number of critics of 'bioprospecting' complain that companies often fail to adequately compensate holders of traditional knowledge, and that patents on products developed in this way are actually a form of intellectual piracy.
An important issue raised by current debates on intellectual property rights — particularly in the context of their impact on developing countries — are the consequences that legislation protecting such rights may have for food security.
1 October 2001
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India launches online petition for patent information
An Indian online forum has launched a second petition to encourage access to information in the country's patent system.
12 May 2009
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Nigeria revokes sickle cell drug licence
Xechem has had its licence to produce a drug based on traditional Nigerian plant medicine withdrawn.
Tips on how to delve behind the gloss of grand science policy statements from Linda Nordling
The executive director of the Gates Foundation talks unorthodox science and crazy ideas