Indigenous Peoples’ Innovation and Intellectual Property: The Issues
Indigenous Peoples’ Innovation and Intellectual Property: The Issues Book Section
Indigenous Peoples’ Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development
- Author(s): Peter Drahos, Susy Frankel
- Secondary Author(s): Peter Drahos, Susy Frankel
- Published: 2012
- Publisher: ANU E Press
- ISBN: 9781921862779 (pbk.) 9781921862786 (ebook)
Abstract: The intersection of indigenous knowledge and IP comes about because of a number of factors, including the creation by indigenous people of global political networks in the second half of the twentieth century, the recognition of the economic value of indigenous knowledge and the increasing activism of developing countries around international IP rights. The chapters in this volume were first presented at the conference ‘Intellectual Property, Trade and the Knowledge Assets of Indigenous Peoples: The Developmental Frontier’ in December 2010. Traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems. This book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of intellectual property when it comes to supporting innovation by indigenous people.