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Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 4: Analysis of global governance and local institutions: the relevance of appropriability

In India, not many firms inbred lines themselves except for the foreign suppliers. In turn, this raises a number of issues and affects the availability of crop variety to farmers as well as what local research laboratories can experiment with and then supply. It can be argued that by supplying only certain types of inbred ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 4: Analysis of global governance and local institutions: the relevance of appropriability

05/04
2004 5min
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Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 3:The international dimension and its interdependencies with the local context

Innovations and new plant varieties are of great importance to increase farmers’ income and promote wealth creation in general, unfortunately purchasing new inputs or labor is often a drawback that constrain farmers’ choices and preferences. Embedding GURTs are not the only steps that the innovators are considering to protect intellectual property rights in agriculture. The ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 3:The international dimension and its interdependencies with the local context

04/04
2004 4min
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Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 2: The reality of India – poison can be sweet too!

Cruising around the mustard fields of Rajastan, discovering the enchanted rice fields of Karnataka or finding your way through the jungle in the hilly north west part of Tamil Nadu is indeed a remarkable experience. India possesses a phenomenal variety of land types and climate zones with vast farming areas surrounded at times by high ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 2: The reality of India – poison can be sweet too!

03/04
2004 6min
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Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 1: Introduction

Two popular assumptions justify the introduction of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds in agriculture. One is demographics, and especially the expectation that according to current rates of population growth in the poorest areas of the world by 2020 not enough food will be produced to feed everyone on the planet. The other is global warming as ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 1: Introduction

02/04
2004 3min
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Novel ideas on development, rogue states and international law: Hilary Benn and Tony Blair explain the new doctrine

Hilary Benn, state secretary for international development after Claire Short, has recently made a remarkable address on the new development doctrine in a lecture which took place the 4th of March 2004 at the London School of Economics. He reminded the audience how 2005 will be a crucial year for multi-lateralism and the enourmous challenges ... Novel ideas on development, rogue states and international law: Hilary Benn and Tony Blair explain the new doctrine

11/03
2004 4min
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International disputes over disaster responsibility: whose law is better?

There is currently an eminent absence of international governance standards on business across borders. International disputes arise everyday in countries where we do not have access to information and which we know very little about. If we look at the recent collapse of a coal mine in the South-East Russian border it is clear that ... International disputes over disaster responsibility: whose law is better?

23/02
2004 4min
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Notes from the Road: India between farming biotechnology and computer services

This short piece is just an overview of your correspondent’s long observation and research of the Indian’s science and technology sector. After a month or so of pilgrimage from the fields of Haryana, across the desert of Rajastan, then through the tea leave plantations of Kerala and the catholic state of Goa, there have been ... Notes from the Road: India between farming biotechnology and computer services

06/01
2004 6min
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Innovation, Risk and Development: policy choices and the WTO

In my paper on ‘ICTs, Governance and Development: Risks and implications for Development Policy’ I raise two important issues which constrain development policy options for Less Developed Countries (LDCs). The first issue is the strict system of rules and clauses governing trade relationships between LDCs and developed nations. The second one is the importance of ... Innovation, Risk and Development: policy choices and the WTO

17/12
2003 4min
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Organismi Geneticamente Modificati: possibili dinamiche di rischio ed innovazione tra locale e globale

Come stabilire l’impatto ed i rischi di una decisione presa a livello locale su processi politici, deliberativi ed economici a livello globale, e viceversa? Vorrei prendere spunto dal recente dibattito ospitato dalla Fondazione Bassetti sugli Organismi Geneticamente Modificati (OGM) per sostanziare la seguente riflessione. Naturalmente sono consapevole del fatto che su argomenti di tale complessità ... Organismi Geneticamente Modificati: possibili dinamiche di rischio ed innovazione tra locale e globale

15/11
2003 6min
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An Agenda for Innovation: Minister Stanca’s Lecture at the London School of Economics

The 20th of October 2003 Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies, has presented the Italian Agenda for Innovation in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics. The presentation has emphasised the potential for innovation that new technologies can offer when properly applied in government and the need to ‘incentivise’ ... An Agenda for Innovation: Minister Stanca’s Lecture at the London School of Economics

22/10
2003 3min
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A conversation with Professor Ian Angell on GM food and participatory governance

Yesterday, or the day before, I met by chance Prof Angell in the copy room of the department where I work and study. For the few people who donÂ’t know him, Prof. Angell is a leading academic in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics. He is famous for his radical ... A conversation with Professor Ian Angell on GM food and participatory governance

16/10
2003 3min
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The priorities for the research community

‘The research community needs to complement its historic role in identifying problems of sustainability with a greater willingness to join with the development and other communities to work on practical solutions to those problems. This means bringing our S&T [Science and Technology] to bear on the highest-priority goals of a sustainability transition, with those goals ... The priorities for the research community

08/10
2003 2min
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