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Intellectual property rights and traditional knowledge: proposals for action

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The two notions of intellectual property and traditional knowledge stand for different worlds, different outlooks on life, and — of importance within our context — for different methods of innovation.

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  1. University of Basel, Faculty of Law, Maiengasse 51, CH- 4056, Basel, Switzerland

    Susette Biber-Klemm

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    Richard Braun

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Biber-Klemm, S. (2003). Intellectual property rights and traditional knowledge: proposals for action. In: Ammann, K., Jacot, Y., Braun, R. (eds) Methods for Risk Assessment of Transgenic Plants. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8033-6_8

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