Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy The State and Intellectual Property in India and Brazil /

• Main Author: Muzaka, Valbona (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
• Subjects: Political economy.; Agriculture.; Latin America-Politics and government.; Asia-Politics and government.; Sociology.; Knowledge management.; International Political Economy.; Latin American Politics.; Asian Politics.; Knowledge - Discourse.; Knowledge Management.

This book opens a window into how two ambitious countries - India and Brazil - are seeking to become knowledge powers in the 21st century. As the knowledge economy became the preferred way of conceptualising the economy and its future direction, in the more economically-advanced countries, our searc...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Catching up in the New Knowledge Economy
• Chapter 3. Financialisation and the Emergence of Biotechnology
• Chapter 4. Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Plant Genetic Resources in Historical Perspective
• Chapter 5. Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Plant Genetic Resources in India
• Chapter 6. Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Plant Genetic Resources in Brazil
• Chapter 7. Looking Ahead: The emerging 'knowledge powers'?.