"Acknowledgements" [2012] ELECD 322; in Bubela, Tania; Gold, Richard E. (eds), "Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

Editor(s): Bubela, Tania; Gold, Richard E.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848442238

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Acknowledgements

This book had its origin in the work of the International Expert Group on
Biotechnology, Innovation and Intellectual Property, in which both co-editors
participated as Chair (Gold) and Member (Bubela). This work was funded
from 2003 to 2008 by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council INE grant (512 2003 1004: E. Richard Gold PI). It culminated in the
International Expert Group's release of its report on biotechnology, innovation
and intellectual property entitled Toward a New Era of Intellectual Property:
From Confrontation to Negotiation (available at http://www.theinnovation
partnership.org/en/ieg/report/ (last accessed November 2011)).
One important branch of the International Expert Group's study was the
nature of traditional knowledge in its various forms and means through which
to acknowledge and protect the interests of indigenous and traditional commu-
nities while continuing to foster innovation. Without this original funding, and
the students it supported (including Edson Beas Rodrigues Jr., Kent Nnadozie
and Julia Carbone), this book would not have come into existence. The co-
editors also wish to thank participants in the Propriété intellectuelle, biotech-
nologies, et enjeux sociaux à l'heure de la globalization conference held at
Sciences Po in Paris in November 2008 at which a preliminary overview of
this work was presented. The original work of the International Expert Group
was expanded under the leadership of Bubela and Gold through funding from
Genome Canada, Genome Alberta, Genome Prairie, Ontario Genomics
Institute and Genome Quebec for the PhytoMetaSyn (Peter Facchini ...