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Knowledge origin, innovations and growth in ayurvedic bioprospection: references from Kerala
Knowledge origin, innovations and growth in ayurvedic bioprospection: references from Kerala
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Harilal, M. S.
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The recent manufacturing interest in traditional medical systems and biodiversity sectors
is directly related to the profitable innovations that traditional knowledge can generate. In
this context, this study attempts to understand the nature of knowledge origin and
innovative process in the drug discovery process in both traditional knowledge and
textual ayurveda based drugs. The analysis has been broadly contextualized in the
premise that the traditional knowledge innovations are non-additive in character due to
the lack of proper incentive structure available with knowledge holder, and hence this
knowledge, which largely serve as a tacit raw material for bio-prospection involves huge
costs in internalizing in to the production. While the firms have the option of cheap cost
drug discovery from ayurvedic public knowledge, they are less incentivized to go for
major bioprospection.
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2008-09
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