Promoting Sustainable Innovations in Plant Varieties
My Ph.D. thesis, titled "Promoting Sustainable Innovations in Plant Varieties: Revisiting “Creative Destruction” and “Market Failure” was published a couple of years ago by Springer Nature under the...
Re-thinking the ‘Ethics’ in ‘Innovation’: Open Source Research in Social Sciences
Dear Everyone It has been a few months now since the 1st Ethics in Innovation Conference Series, including the World Youth Forum for Ethics in Innovation (WYF 2017) in which 52 students from 29...
Re-thinking the ‘Ethics’ in ‘Innovation’
How do laws and policies aimed at promoting and disseminating beneficial innovations define the terms ‘beneficial’ and ‘innovation’? Do these definitions ensure equitable socio-economic development...
Natural Farming Summit 1.0
In July last year, Prof. Gregory Radick of the University of Leeds and I designed a research project to study the innovativeness among Indian farmers engaged in natural/organic farming and the role...
1st Munich Conference Series on Ethics in Innovation
After a long break, I am excited to inform you that the Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition and the World Forum for Ethics in Business, in partnership with the German Patent &...
Innovations by Small Land Owners – Can their innovations bring them economic prosperity under Indian law?
A. HMT Rice and Dadaji Ramji Khobragade (This is an updated case study - an earlier version of this was published on Spicy IP here) Until the early 1980s, Dadji Ramji Khobragade, a farmer owning a...
Indian Agriculture: Some Basic Facts and Food for Thought
This blog is partially an excerpt from a recently published article of mine, titled "India's Plant Variety Protection Law: Historical and Implementation Perspectives." India today is...
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