Patent Pooling and Access to Knowledge: A case study of biotechnology with reference to India

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dc.date.accessioned2012-08-14T15:02:16Z
dc.date.available2012-08-14T15:02:16Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionAppendix includeden
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dc.description.abstractThe concern for adequate access to patented knowledge is as old as the history of modern intellectual property rights. The public good nature of intellectual property has always been cited as the reason for providing legal protection to creator of knowledge. Intellectual property is characterised by what economists call rival nature meaning that once knowledge has been created other cannot be excluded from its use. Thus cost of recreation of knowledge is zero. This means marginal cost of creating knowledge is also zero. In a competitive market price is equal to marginal cost and hence market-determined price of knowledge creation would also be zero. In such a situation there would not be enough incentive for creation of knowledge or innovation. Hence the system of legal protection intellectual property rights evolved to make knowledge an excludable product...en
dc.format.extent1 digital file (91 p. : ill.)en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/50035
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dc.subjectPATENT POOLSen
dc.subjectACCESS TO INFORMATIONen
dc.subjectINTELLECTUAL PROPERTYen
dc.subjectINDIAen
dc.titlePatent Pooling and Access to Knowledge: A case study of biotechnology with reference to Indiaen
dc.typeIDRC Final Reporten
idrc.copyright.holderThe Energy and Resources Institute
idrc.dspace.accessLimited Accessen
idrc.project.componentnumber104529003
idrc.project.number104529
idrc.project.titleAccessing Patented Knowledge for Innovationen
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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