Overview
- The author carried out over 50 interviews in India (New Delhi), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia), and in Geneva on the subject
- It will appeal to policymakers, businesses, state representatives, civil society groups, individuals and scholars, all seeking to understand, deal with, or take advantage of the rise of global knowledge economy
- Compares two of the BRICS – India and Brazil – to predict whether or not they will succeed in becoming ‘knowledge powers’ in the future
Part of the book series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy (SPERIRP)
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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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy
Book Subtitle: The State and Intellectual Property in India and Brazil
Authors: Valbona Muzaka
Series Title: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59306-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59305-4Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93207-8Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59306-1Published: 24 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3394
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 216
Topics: International Political Economy, Agriculture, Latin American Politics, Asian Politics, Knowledge - Discourse, Knowledge Management