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Intellectual Property Rights in Indian Agriculture
Watal, Jayashree - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper distinguishes the Intellectual Property Rights relevant to agriculture and explain these rights. The international intellectual property law for these rights will be described. India's international obligations vis-a-vis her own IPR laws has been explained. Analysis of the public...
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Climate Change and India-Some Major Issues and Policy Implications
Prasad, H A C; Kochher, J.S. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper examines the genesis of Climate Change which has been referred to as the defining human development issue of our generation. Also studied is the impact of this problem in the global as well as Indian context. India is not immune from the impact of global warming and climate change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512427
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A Green Venture Fund to Finance Clean Technology for Developing Countries
Wheeler, David; Nassiry, Darius - eSocialSciences - 2011
for two funds of funds for technology innovation and deployment is proposed. Some key issues to be considered, including … differential treatment of public and private investors and possible approaches to setting technology priorities are highlighted …
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The Flight from Defence to Civilian Space: Evolution of the Sectoral System of Innovation of India’s Aerospace Industry
Mani, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2010
the cluster: lead actors, knowledge or technology domain, and the demand. Changes in each of these blocks over time are …
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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Information and Communication Technologies
Rao, C Niranjan - eSocialSciences - 2008
characteristics; market structure and technology transfer experiences of selected developing countries. [WP No. 61]. …
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Building Technological Capability in Developing Countries: The Case for a Technology Policy
Huq, Mozammel - eSocialSciences - 2006
intervention, at a time when the less developed countries are struggling to compete. The paper surveys the state of technology … externalities and market imperfections involved in technology development are so substantial that, if left to market forces without … a technology policy, there seems little prospect of the successful building of technological capability by low …
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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012
A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land has been limited by nature or wars, food shortages...
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What Constrains Business? The Role of the ‘Single Window’ in Gujarat, India
D'souza, Errol - eSocialSciences - 2011
The investment climate of a region reflects the location specific factors that provide opportunities and incentives for firms to invest, create jobs, and expand. A good investment climate removes unjustified costs, risks, and barriers to competition and encourages firms to invest and...
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Investment Climate and Total Factor Productivity in Manufacturing: Analysis of Indian States
Goldar, Bishwanath; Veermani, C - eSocialSciences - 2007
Liberalisation initiatives have been taken by India with a view to improve the efficiency of manufacturing industries and achieving faster GDP growth. The present paper investigates the influence of Investment Climate (IC) on the levels of total factor productivity (TFP) in the organised...
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Development and Health in Poor Countries: Role of Interntional Organizations and Switzerland
Briand, Bastein; Colli, Lorenza Eder; Gut, Anne; Henny, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study tries to better understand three fields which seems to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated access to medicines : 1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property (IP) rights in the more general framework of human rights ; 2. the mechanism which enabled the...
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