Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy

The State and Intellectual Property in India and Brazil

Valbona Muzaka (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2018
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-59305-4 (ISBN)

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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 search for understanding also followed the same direction. This generated a body of work that has neglected countries that, like India and Brazil, are attempting to make the leap into knowledge economies. Muzaka explores these motivations and the ways in which they have inspired a number of institutional reforms in India and Brazil. The author offers an investigation of the role the state in shaping the respective intellectual property systems pertaining to the pharmaceutical and agro-biotechnology sectors and the multiple social conflicts that have unfolded as a result.

Valbona Muzaka is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London, UK. Her work focuses on the knowledge economy, intellectual property rights, global governance, public health, trade, development and the ‘emerging economies’. She has published a number of articles and chapters on these themes and is author of The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines (2011).

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’?.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
Zusatzinfo	VII, 216 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	Biotechnology • Brazil • Food • Fordism • Health • India • Intellectual Property • Knowledge Economy • Knowledge powers • New Knowledge Economy • plant genetic resources • Political Economy • Political Science • post-Fordism • Statehood
ISBN-10	1-137-59305-9 / 1137593059
ISBN-13	978-1-137-59305-4 / 9781137593054
Zustand	Neuware