Below the radar innovations and emerging property right approaches in Tibetan medicine

Madhavan, Harilal

doi:10.1111/jwip.12084

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“…Frugal innovation models can therefore serve as an anchor to examine the successful commercialisation of indigenous innovation in countries such as Ghana. Frugal innovation models recognise that in low-income settings, it is the incremental and often non-technological innovations, often not within the radar of science and technology and policy, that translate into a substantial increase and sustained firm performance, generating income, employment and better living standards (Anderson and Markides 2007;Clark et al 2009;Radjou et al 2012;Bhatti 2012;Madhavan 2017).…”

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Examining the Role of Regulation in the Commercialisation of Indigenous Innovation in Sub-Saharan African Economies: Evidence from the Ghanaian Small-Scale Industry

Adjimah

Atiase

Dzansi

2022

Administrative Sciences

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Understanding the factors that drive the successful commercialisation of indigenous innovation in Sub-Saharan African economies is still limited. From both policy and theoretical perspectives, regulation is one factor that remains crucial for the successful commercialisation of innovation. However, the empirical evidence is still unclear regarding its effect on firm performance, urging the need for more evidence from different economies, sectors, and firms. This study, therefore, examined the effects of regulation on the performance of firms engaged in the commercialisation of indigenous innovation in the Ghanaian small-scale industry, a typical low-income economy in Sub-Sahara Africa. From the frugal innovation theoretical perspective, the study assumed that firms engaged in the commercialisation of indigenous innovation in such low-income economies operate in an environment with regulatory gaps and voids. Using a sample survey of 557, it deployed PLS-SEM to test the effects of regulation on key successful commercialisation metrics. The findings show that at a 5% statistical significance level, regulation has significant positive effects on sales, employment, and owners’ feelings of success. Regulation also positively moderates the influence of finance and organisational factors on overall firm performance. The study provides leading evidence of the effect of regulation on the commercialisation of indigenous innovation from Ghana and adds to the clarification of the impact of regulation. It suggests that in such low-income economies, the policy must consider more balanced and appropriate regulations, not less, or deregulating to promote indigenous innovation.

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Section: Frugal Innovation Theory (Fit)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the Role of Regulation in the Commercialisation of Indigenous Innovation in Sub-Saharan African Economies: Evidence from the Ghanaian Small-Scale Industry

Adjimah

Atiase

Dzansi

2022

Administrative Sciences

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“…Lums medicinal bathing is very similar to the bathing culture practiced in indigenous medicine systems of India, Egypt, Europe, Russia [60], and Bhutan. Indeed, the scholarly Tibetan medicine is believed to be the hybrid of other major scholarly medicine systems such as Ayurvedic, Greco-Arabic, and Chinese traditional medicines [61]. Thus, origin, practice, development, transmission, and ownership (as cultural and knowledge property) for indigenous medical practices, including lums medicinal bathing, are very complex and controversial.…”

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Water-Based Therapies of Bhutan: Current Practices and the Recorded Clinical Evidence of Balneotherapy

Wangchuk

Yeshi

Ugyen

et al. 2020

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Medical water therapy (also called medical hydrology) is practiced worldwide both for relaxation and treatment of diseases. While this practice is still thriving in Bhutan, there is a lack of proper documentation and critical study. Therefore, the current study reports on the water therapies practiced in Bhutan and their health benefits. We used four-stage process: (1) a review of literature on balneotherapy (both traditional textbooks and scientific papers); (2) listing and surveying the hot springs, mineral, and holy spring waters; (3) reviewing the health records of the patients maintained at the traditional hospitals and interviewing traditional physicians and patients about health benefits; and (4) reviewing available literature to identify existing clinical trials data to provide evidence for hydrotherapies. We found three main forms of hydrotherapies are practiced in Bhutan, which comprises herbal bath therapy, balneotherapy, and spiritually empowered waters. The most popular hydrotherapies are herbal bath and hot spring therapies. Herbal bath therapy needs traditional physicians’ prescriptions, while hot springs do not require it. Through field surveys, ten different hot springs (tsha-chu) and 17 medicinal water or mineral springs (sman-chu), and 17 holy spring-waters (sgrub-chu) were identified. In general, medical water therapies are used by the Bhutanese people to treat various ailments, including gastritis, neurological disorders, arthritis, dermatological diseases, and rheumatological and musculoskeletal disorders. Even though a lack of scientific evidence makes it difficult to draw concrete conclusions on their traditionally claimed efficacy and safety, there are clinical evidences documented from other countries.

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“…Bodle et al [10] studied the ICH protection issue from the economic perspective and proposed to treat ICH as assets, which can be put under the protection of the indigenous culture intellectual property. Madhavan [11] examined how to protect Tibetan medicine, which is a form of ICH, by taking an emerging property right approach. Ubertazzi [12] proposed to develop a new system to protect transnational ICH.…”

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On Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China from the Intellectual Property Rights Perspective

Qing¹,

Lian²

2018

Sustainability

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With the development of globalization, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has come under increasing threat, making the safeguarding of ICH a crucial task for the governments and peoples of the world. This paper examines China’s current state of intellectual property (IPR) protection for ICH and proposes that ICH be placed under China’s legislative protection as intellectual property. Due to the immense diversity and complexity of ICH and the difficulty in reconciling various interests involved, the existing IPR protection mode faces many obstacles in practice. We present two case studies and three sets of recommendations on improving the protection of ICH in China. The first set relies on improving copyright protection for ICH, the second set relies on improving trademark and geographical protection for ICH, and the third set relies on improving patent protection for ICH.

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Below the radar innovations and emerging property right approaches in Tibetan medicine

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

Examining the Role of Regulation in the Commercialisation of Indigenous Innovation in Sub-Saharan African Economies: Evidence from the Ghanaian Small-Scale Industry

Examining the Role of Regulation in the Commercialisation of Indigenous Innovation in Sub-Saharan African Economies: Evidence from the Ghanaian Small-Scale Industry

Water-Based Therapies of Bhutan: Current Practices and the Recorded Clinical Evidence of Balneotherapy

On Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China from the Intellectual Property Rights Perspective

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