This book integrates a science and business approach to provide an introduction and an insider view of intellectual property issues within the biotech industry, with case studies and examples from developing economy markets. Broad in scope, this book covers key principles in pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural biotechnology within four parts.
Part 1 details the principles of intellectual property and biotechnology. Part 2 covers plant biotechnology, including biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, GM foods in sustainable agriculture, microbial biodiversity and bioprospecting for improving crop health and productivity, and production and regulatory requirements of biopesticides and biofertilizers. The third part describes recent advances in industrial biotechnology, such as DNA patenting, and commercial viability of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in genome editing. The final part describes intellectual property issues in drug discovery and development of personalized medicine, and vaccines in biodefence.
This book is an ideal resource for all postgraduates and researchers working in any branch of biotechnology that requires an overview of the recent developments of intellectual property frameworks in the biotech sector.
Circa l’autore
Swati Sharma Ph.D. (ORCID: 0000-0003-2949-2363) is currently associated with Amity Institute of Travel and Tourism, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Swati Sharma earned her doctoral qualification from Kurukshetra University, India and has qualified UGC NET twice. She is currently Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Travel & Tourism, Amity University, Noida. Dr. Sharma has a strong interest in MICE Tourism and Destination Image and has published extensively on related topics. Dr. Sharma’s previous works include one edited book on ‘Tourist Behaviour’ published by Apple Academic Press, USA.
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