Indigenous People's Innovation : Intellectual Property Pathways to Development.

Preliminary -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- List of Contributors -- Preface. Indigenous Innovation: New Dialogues, New Pathways -- 1. Indigenous Peoples' Innovation and Intellectual Property: The Issues -- 2. Ancient but New: Developing Locally Driven Enterprises Based on Traditional Medicines in Kuuku I'yu Northern Kaanju Homelands, Cape York, Queensland, Australia -- 3. 'It would be good to know where our food goes': Information Equals Power? -- 4. Biopiracy and the Innovations of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities -- 5. Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Fair Trade: Voluntary Certification Standards in the Light of WIPO and WTO Law and Policy-making -- 6. Traditional Innovation and the Ongoing Debate on the Protection of Geographical Indications -- 7. The Branding of Traditional Cultural Expressions: To Whose Benefit? -- 8. The Pacific Solution: The European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Activism in Australia's and New Zealand's Sphere of Influence -- 9. Do You Want it Gift Wrapped?: Protecting Traditional Knowledge in the Pacific Island Countries -- Bibliography.

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.

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