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

ISBN-13: 9781349932078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Valbona Muzaka

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1                     Introduction

2                    Catching up in the New Knowledge Economy

2.1 From Fordism to post-Fordism: the emergence of the internationalised competition state orientation

2.2 The rise of the knowledge economy

2.3 Intellectual property and knowledge as commodity and capital 

3                    Financialisation and the Emergence of Biotechnology 

3.1 The visible hand at work: the development of biotechnology in the US

3.2 Reactions outside the US 

4                    Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Plant Genetic Resources in Historical Perspective

4.1. IP protection for pharmaceuticals

4.2   IP protection for plant genetic resources

4.3   International contests over patents and plant genetic resources prior to TRIPS and the CBD

5                    Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Agro-biotech in India

5.1 On the economic imaginary of (re)making India a knowledge economy

5.2 Reforming IP rules for pharmaceuticals

5.3 Reforming IP rules for plant genetic resources 

6                    Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Agro-biotech in Brazil

6.1 On the economic imaginary of Brazil as the natural knowledge economy

6.2 Reforming IP rules for pharmaceuticals

6.3 Reforming IP rules for plant genetic resources

7                     Looking Ahead: The emerging ‘knowledge powers’? 

Notes

Bibliography

O autorze

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).