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Broader Significance
Conceptual
- Participatory ethnographic analysis of indigenous peoples perspectives
on human nature relatedness and values
- Participatory ethnographic analysis of indigenous peoples experiences
with research projects directed towards bioprospecting
- Understanding the dimensions of the emergent bioeconomy across multiple
scales and epistemologies and challenges for governance across scales
Methodological
- Multi-locale fieldwork ranging from Amazonian communities to regional
and United Nations debates
- Participatory critical accompaniment with indigenous peoples
- Development of international indicators for patent activity in relation
to biodiversity and traditional knowledge across a spectrum from medicinal
plants to proteomics and bionanotechnology
- Development of methods and a quantitative dataset for international
trends in patent activity relating to biodiversity and traditional knowledge
Policy
- Contributing to national and regional level policy analysis in relation
to traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources and benefit
sharing
- Bringing trends in the biosciences into focus for policy makers under
the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in relation to
their implications for the development of an international regime on
access to genetic resources and benefit sharing
- Providing research methods and tools for the analysis of patent trends
to civil society organisations, the scientific community and governments
for biodiversity and traditional knowledge
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