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Record Nr.

UNISA996214900003316

Titolo

Access to knowledge in India : new research on intellectual property, innovation and development / / edited by Ramesh Subramanian and Lea Shaver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2011

ISBN

9781849665568

9781849665575

9781849665261

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Access to knowledge ; ; v. 3

Soggetti

Access to knowledge movement - India

Intellectual property - India

Technological innovations - India

Information science - India

Economic development - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This is the third volume in our Access to Knowledge series. India is a $1 trillion economy which nevertheless struggles with a very high poverty rate and very low access to knowledge for almost seventy percent of its population which lives in rural areas. This volume features four parts on current issues facing intellectual property, development policy (especially rural development policy) and associated innovation, from the Indian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars taking an interdisciplinary approach and affiliated to Indian or American universities and Indian think-tanks. Each examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge. These include information and communications technology for development; the Indian digital divide; networking rural areas; copyright and comparative business models in music; free and open source software; patent reform and access to medicines; the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally



and domestically."--Bloomsbury Publishing.