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Establishing National Innovation Foundation: How does a tail wag the dog?
(2009-07-25)
A simple search on the web about unaided technological innovations by common people from the unorganized sector will reveal the paucity of information worldwide. It is this gap, which Honey Bee Network started at IIMA ...
Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration
(2009-07-25)
Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ...
Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations based enterprises
(2009-07-25)
The dominant model of globalisation creates considerable anxiety and stress in the minds of small-scale entrepreneurs and civil society organisations. In this model, choices for small entrepreneurs are very limited. The ...
Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations for Managing Resources, Institutions and Technologies Sustainably: A Case of Agriculture, Medicinal Plants and Biotechnology
(2009-07-25)
Communities living close to nature invariably evolve a language to understand and interpret the variations and discontinuities in nature. A flower of new colour, an unusually tall plant, an unseasonal germination or an ...
Why don’t Small and Medium Enterprises Innovate More: Creating a Cooperative Learning Environment at Individual, Firm and Regional Level
(2009-08-03)
One would expect, that a large number of innovations linked to cycle, a common person’s means of transport, would be of great interest to the cycle industry. But, if the leaders of cycle industry do not evince much interest, ...
Science,sustainability and social purpose: barriers to effective articulation, dialogue and utilization of formal andinformal science in public policy
(2009-12-12)
A quick look at the leading scientific journals on development brings out one thing clearly: the almost total absence of positive, creative, green voices of innovator and inventors who are solving technological and ...
Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will and when
(2009-12-12)
Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, ...
Blending universal with local ethic: accountability towards nature, perfect stranger and society
(2009-12-12)
Conserving the nature which surrounds us requires dealing with out perception of natureiii. Often we do not realize that the attribution of human feelings in our discourse with non-human sentient beings mimics rules of out ...
Implications of WTO for Indian agriculture: the case of intellectual property rights and emerging biosafety protocol
(2009-12-12)
Globalisation in trade and investment through harmonisation of national laws, particularly dealing with intellectual property rights is one of the major impacts of GATT/WTO. The contribution of knowledge as a factor of ...
Fishing in the `troubled' waters: recognizing, respecting, and rewarding local ecological knowledge, innovations and practices concerning aquatic biological diversity
(2009-12-12)
The study of indigenous ecological knowledge has become an important building block of any participatory approach to natural resources management. It is not the outsiders alone who benefit from the study of indigenous ...