Regulating bioprospecting : institutions for drug research, access, and benefit-sharing / Padmashree Gehl Sampath.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tokyo ; New York, N.Y. : United Nations University Press, 2005.Description: xii, 274 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9789280811124 (pbk.) :
- 344.04/233 22
- K1519.B54 S26 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-267) and index.
Bioprospecting for drug research : an overview -- Drug R&D and the structure of the industry -- International policy dimensions of bioprospecting -- Transaction costs and their impact on the market for bioprospecting -- Intellectual property rights on traditional medicinal knowledge : a process oriented perspective -- The scope of the right to regulate access.
Sampath (researcher, United Nations University Institute for New Technologies, the Netherlands) examines the optimal property rights structures and institutional mechanisms for regulating bioprospecting for drug research. Focusing on the economics of contracts, she shows that the rights exchanged are complementary at each stage of drug discovery an.
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