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

Muzaka, Valbona

ISBN 10: 1349932078 / ISBN 13: 9781349932078

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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223 pages. 8.26x5.82x0.53 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy: The State and Intellectual Property in India and Brazil
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349932078
• ISBN 13: 9781349932078
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.28 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).