3791. Regulating Bioprospecting: Institutions for Drug Research, Access and Benefit-Sharing
- Author:
- Padmashree Gehl Sampath
- Publication Date:
- 04-2005
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- United Nations University
- Abstract:
- This policy brief summarizes the main arguments and conclusions of a forthcoming book by United Nations University Press, which examines the regulation of bioprospecting for drug research from an interdisciplinary law and economics perspective. Bioprospecting was once touted as a promising opportunity for collaborative ventures in biotechnology-based research and development (R) between the genetic resources-rich South and the technology-rich North, especially in the case of drug research. However this promise has yet to materialize. Understanding why this is so is a central policy question for countries in the South that wish to leverage their biodiversity endowments in the development process.
- Topic:
- Development, Environment, Health, and Science and Technology