A. Innovations at Grassroots, Administrative Innovations, Educational Innovations, Business Incubation

  1. Empathetic innovations: Connections across boundaries, to be published in a book entitled, “Timeless Legend of India, Gandhi” [Ed.] Dr. R. A. Mashelkar in commemoration of 30 years of Gandhi National Memorial Society, Pune, 2010, IIMA WP No.2010-09-02, September 2010 Click here to see the full document
  2. Cradle of Creativity: Strategies for in-situ Conservation of agrobiodiversity, IIMA WP No.2010-09-03, September 2010 Click here to see the full document
  3. A quest for social justice: A colloquium to build a network, Vikalpa, Vol.35, No.2, April – June 2010 Click here to see the full document
  4. Leveraging Innovations for Inclusive Governance, Presented at the 5th Civil Services Day organized by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance, Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs on 21st April 2010 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi Click here to see the full document
  5. Grassroots Green Innovations for Inclusive, Sustainable Development in ‘The Innovation for Development Report 2009-2010, Strengthening Innovation for the Prosperity of the Nations, Ed. Augusto Lopez-Claros, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 137-146 Click here to see the full document
  6. Innovations for Reviving Small-Scale Industries, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-03 - R1 Click here to see the full document
  7. Pedagogical innovations for triggering social and economic entrepreneurship among youth, Foundation Day lecture at NITIE, Mumbai, March 25, 2009 – R2 Click here to see the full document
  8. The Forgotten Labourer: technological empowerment of rural labour Or The Labourer First, Click here to see the full document
  9. Recasting National Employment Guarantee Programme: Mental, not menial Click here to see the full document
  10. Managing knowledge, creating networks and triggering innovations for sustainable agriculture, National Seminar on Agriculture Extension, 27-28 Feb 2009, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-05 – R3 Click here to see the full document
  11. ‘I’ for Innovation at shop floor: A Shodh Yatra in manufacturing sector, TATA in-house publication Click here to see the full document
  12. Linking Vertical and Horizontal Markets for Innovations at Grassroots: Sustainability Imperative, Keynote lecture delivered at Future of Logistics Conference, Hanover, Germany, 26th May 2008, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-02 - Q1 Click here to see the full document
  13. Rethinking the Priorities for Indian Agricultural Research, Institutions and Policy: Learning from the Grassroots, Dr. B.P.Pal Memorial Lecture delivered at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi on 24th May 2008, IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-04 – Q2 Click here to see the full document
  14. Meeting the unmet needs of the majority: A grassroots innovation perspective from Honey Bee Network, presentation made at the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Meeting on April 5, 2008 in Miami, USA – Q3 Click here to see the full document
  15. What can we learn from green grassroots innovators: Blending reductionist and holistic perspectives for sustainability science, Lecture delivered at Centre for International Development, Harvard’s Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA on February 25, 2008 – Q5 Click here to see the full document
  16. G2G - Grassroots to Global: The Knowledge Rights of Creative Communities, keynote lecture delivered at Globalization and Justice Conference, Seattle University, USA, February 21, 2008 – Q6 Click here to see the full document
  17. Is a just system also fair? Traversing the domain of knowledge, institutions, culture and ethics. Published in “Who Owns Knowledge? Knowledge and the Law” (Eds. Nico Stehr and Bernd Weiler), London, Transaction Publishers, 2008, p.87 – 97, presented at the International Conference on Is Knowledge Justiciable? Essen, Germany, 21 – 23 March, 2005, IIMA W.P.No: 2006-04-05 – N165 Click here to see the full document
  18. Indo-US Nuclear Deal: A debate, Colloquium, VIKALPA, Vol. 32, No. 4, October - December 2007 Click here to see the full document
  19. Towards an inclusive innovation model for sustainable development, Paper presented at the Global Business Policy Council of A.T. Kearney – CEO’s Retreat, Dubai, December 9 – 11, 2007 – P1 Click here to see the full document
  20. Breeding, benefits and bridges with modern science: Giving innovative farmers their due, Paper presented at the Second Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 29 October 2007 – P2 Click here to see the full document
  21. Can protection of intellectual property rights be of any consequence to the poor people? in India's Liberalization Experience: Hostage to the WTO?, (Eds. Suparna Karmakar, Rajiv Kumar and Bibek Debroy), brought out by ICRIER; New Delhi, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2007, p.256-293 – P4 Click here to see the full document
  22. From Farmers’ First to Labourers’ First: Why do we still know so little? Presented at the Workshop on Farmer First Revisited: Farmer Participatory Research and Development Twenty Years on, 12-14 December 2007, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, London – P5 Click here to see the full document
  23. With Arul George) Building capacity at community level for protecting the intellectual property rights in genetic resources and associated knowledge systems and cultural expressions, presented in the roundtable on Building Community Capacity: A Roundtable on Practical Initiatives on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions, Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources, organised by WIPO, Geneva, 10-12 December 2007, Geneva – P6 Click here to see the full document
  24. Conundrum of Creativity, compensation, conservation in India: How can intellectual property rights help grassroots innovators and traditional knowledge holders, published in Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge (Ed.Charles R.McManis), London, Earthscan, 2007, Chapter 22, p.327-353 – P7 Click here to see the full document
  25. Harnessing Community and Individual Knowledge in Plant Genetic Resources Management: Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration, Paper prepared for presentation at the National Scientific Symposium on “Search for New Genes” on 1st September 2006 at NASC in New Delhi. Published in “Search for New Genes” (Eds. V.L.Chopra, R.P.Sharma, S.R.Bhat and B.M.Prasanna), 2007 New Delhi, Academic Foundation,p.311-323, IIMA WP No. 2007-07-08, - O3 Click here to see the full document
  26. Learning from creative people: Scouting and Documentation of Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge, paper presented at the GLOBAL GIAN: Building Global Value Chain around Green Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge, Tianjin - China, May 31-June 2, 2007 – P8 Click here to see the full document
  27. Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations, keynote lecture delivered at 10th MIT $100K Global Startup Workshop in Trondheim, Norway on 28th March 2007, IIMA WP. No. 2007-07-07, - P9 Click here to see the full document
  28. Knowledge based empowerment of local bodies: Generating entrepreneurial approach to development, presented at the National Colloquium on Decentralisation in Rural Governance, organised by the Administrative Reforms Commission, 1-2 March 2007, Delhi, published in The Radical Humanist, Vol.71,No.2, May 2007, p. 15 – 17, - P10 Click here to see the full document
  29. Scaling up sustainable agricultural innovations by small farmers and artisans, A presentation from Honey Bee Network and National Innovation Foundation at Ministry of Agriculture and ICAR, Delhi , March 2007 – P11 Click here to see the full document
  30. Conserving, augmenting and sharing water: Towards a green Gujarat, presented at the Conference on Contributions of Water Resources Management in Overall Development of Gujarat, 12 January 2007, Ahmedabad – P12 Click here to see the full document
  31. Indigenous knowledge: Ways of knowing, feeling and doing, mimeo, Q7 Click here to see the full document
  32. Ten policies that will transform India, not in our life time but within next three to four years, mimeo, Click here to see the full document
  33. From Sink to Source: The Honey Bee Network documents indigenous knowledge and innovations in India, in innovations / Summer 2006, www. mitpress.mit.edu/innovations, p. 49 – 66. – O5 Click here to see the full document
  34. Innovations, institutions and involvement: Socio ecological crisis and insurgency in marginal environments, presented at the seminar on Civil Society and Democratic Space in South Asia, in Delhi on 12th January 2006, IIMA W.P. No.2006-04-03 – O6 Click here to see the full document
  35. Is longer, faster, stronger, smarter life also the happier? Reflections on slower, sustainable and more inclusive life experience, Paper prepared for presentation at the World Forum on Tomorrow’s People: The Challenges of Technologies for Life Extension and Enhancement, March 14-17, 2006 Said Business School, University of Oxford, IIMA W.P.No. 2006-04-04 – O7 Click here to see the full document
  36. Ethical issues in accessing people's knowledge and innovations for developing low cost health technologies, paper prepared for presentation at the IV International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB), Istanbul, August 21 – 26, 2005, published in the Proceedings of the ICEB 2005 (Ed. Z.Fusun Ertug), November 2006 – N166 Click here to see the full document
  37. Transforming Indian villages through innovations, knowledge network and entrepreneurship: Dealing with the bottom of the pyramid or tip of the iceberg, Lecture delivered at the Convention on Transforming Villages into Vibrant and Prosperous Entities-Innovative Strategies, organized by the Lucknow Management Association, Lucknow, on 24th October 2005, published in Lucknow Management Association Convention Journal (Eds., M.Akbar and Jabir Ali), Vol.1, No.1, 2005, Addendum, p.1-7. – N167 Click here to see the full document
  38. Innovations for making small enterprises competitive: Overtaking China, lecture delivered at the Ludhiana Management Association, organised by Department of Business Management, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, on 19th October 2005, IIMA WP No.2007-08-03 – N168 Click here to see the full document
  39. Dialogue on Design, Diversity and Development: Learning from Grassroots Innovators, keynote presentation made at Philips Design Symposium in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on 20th September 2005 – N169 Click here to see the full document
  40. Indigenous knowledge and innovations for managing resources, institutions and technologies sustainably: A case of agriculture, medicinal plants and biotechnology. Paper contributed for presentation at the Seminar on IBSA Seminar on Economic Development and Social Equity, August 2-4, 2005 at Rio, Brazil, IIMA WP No. 2007-07-09 – N170 Click here to see the full document
  41. (With R.A.Mashelkar) Women and Formal and Informal Science, IIMA Working Paper No.2005-05-02, May 2005, published in History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilisation (General Editor: D.P.Chattopadhyaya), Volume IX Part 3, Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods (ed. Bharati Ray), New Delhi, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd., Chapter 10, p. 208 – 235 – N171. Click here to see the full document
  42. If Technology is like word, Institutions are like Grammar: Institutional context of technological innovations and knowledge systems at grassroots. Paper originally prepared for EU supported project on Knowledge Network for Augmenting Grassroots Innovations and presented at the International Conference on Biodiversity: Science and Governance, January 26, 2005, UNESCO, Paris. IIMA W.P. NO. 2009-03-01 – N172 Click here to see the full document
  43. Local Knowledge: Global Institutions: Why should local experts disclose their knowledge to institutional experts? Paper presented at the Workshop on Biodiversity being organized by IDDRI as a part of International Conference on Biodiversity in Paris, 27th January 2005. – N173 Click here to see the full document
  44. Agricultural Education for Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Environmental Sustainability: Agenda for Innovation and Change, Lecture delivered at the IAUA Convention on “Quality of Agricultural Education in the context of National and International Commitments,” on 12th January 2005 at the Directorate of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 004 - N174 Click here to see the full document
  45. Social Context of Management Education: Institution Building Experiences at IIMs, Colloquium, Vikalpa,Vol. 29, No 2, April - June 2004 Click here to see the full document
  46. Harnessing Wisdom for Managing Watersheds: Honey Bee Perspective on Innovations, Institutions and Policies for Marginal Environments, IIMA Working Paper No.2004-07-02, July 2004 -- N88 Click here to see the full document
  47. Learning from green grassroots innovators: How does a tail wag the dog? Keynote lecture presented at the International Conference on Innovations in Technology and Governance, organized by The Ash Institute of Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Science, Technology and Public Policy Programme at John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, 30 – 31 October, 2003 – N150 Click here to see the full document
  48. Rethinking incentives or redefining property rights: Conserving, augmenting, innovating and diffusing agrobiodiversity – a perspective of grassroots inventors and innovators. Paper prepared for presentation at the Symposium on Food Security and Biodiversity on 16th October 2003 at Basel, Switzerland – N151 Click here to see the full document
  49. Honey Bee Network: Giving Visibility, Voice and Voluntary Platform to Green Grassroots Innovators and Traditional Knowledge Holders, presented at ICT Development Forum, Petersburg, Germany, May 21, 2003 – N152 Click here to see the full document
  50. Mobilizing Grassroots’ technological Innovations and Traditional Knowledge, values and institutions: Articulating Social and Ethical Capital, published in the Futures Volume 35, Issue 9, November 2003, Pages 975 – 987 – N153 Click here to see the published version of the paper
  51. Technological innovations for revitalising small scale and tiny sector: Need for a bold initiative - A note submitted to Finance Minister for budget 2003-04 – N154 Click here to see the full document
  52. Value chain augmentation for grassroots innovations making India innovative, note submitted to Finance Minister at the pre budget consultation meeting, January 9, 2002 – N 137 Click here to see the full document
  53. Framework for rewarding indigenous knowledge in developing countries: Value chain for grassroots innovations, Paper presented at WTO Expert Committee, 3 September 2001 -- N 132 Click here to see the full document
  54. With Riya Sinha) Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces: rights, responsibilities and rewards for conserving biodiversity and associated knowledge systems, Presented at International Conference of MAB UNESCO on Biosphere Reserve, IFRI. Dehradun, 22-25, Feb 2001, published in Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Managing Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia (Eds., P.S.Ramakrishnan, R.K.Rai, R.P.S.Katwal and S.Mehndiratta), Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2002, p. 161-181. Click here to see the full document -- N 125
  55. Rethinking priorities for Science and Technology policy for augmenting grassroots innovations: A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minister, 2001 -- N 136 Click here to see the full document
  56. Financing tiny and small sector technological innovations: A pre-budget submission to the Finance Minster, 2000 -- Click here to see the full document -- N 135
  57. Rewarding Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity: The Role of Intellectual Property Protection, Paper presented at a seminar at Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, May 2000 Click here to see the full document - N 116
  58. Transforming Developmental Options for Knowledge-rich, Economically-poor people: From Grassroots Innovations to Global Space, paper presented at the UNESCO-ACEID Conference in Bangkok during December 12-15, 2000 Click here to see the full document
  59. Fishing in the ‘Troubled’ Waters: Recognizing, Respecting, and Rewarding Local Ecological Knowledge, Innovations and Practices Concerning Aquatic Biological Diversity, IIMA Working Paper No.99-12-01, December 1999, published in ‘Towards Polices for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Aquatic Genetic Resources, ICLARM Conference Proceedings, R.S.V.Pullin, D.M.Bartley and J.Kooiman (eds.), p.145-159, 1999. -- N112 Click here to see the full document
  60. Conserving Biodiversity and Rewarding Associated Knowledge and Innovation Systems: Honey Bee Perspective, invited paper for the First Commonwealth Science Forum – Access, Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property Rights and Benefit Sharing and the Commonwealth, Goa, 23-25 September 1999 -- N100 Click here to see the full document
  61. Business Incubation Development in India, paper presented at the International Conference on Business Incubation in Hong Kong, November 18-20, 1998 – N 138 Click here to see the full document
  62. Augmenting Innovations: Models of Incubators, 1998. Click here to see the full document
  63. Knowledge Networks for Augmenting Grassroots Creativity and Innovation: Organizational Innovations for sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, 1998. Click here to see the full document -- N 121
  64. India Innovates: Unfolding Dynamism of Youth for Innovation Based Enterprise Management (UDYIEM), Keynote lecture delivered at National Level Chemical Engineering Students Meet, Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Nadiad on 5 October, 1998. Click here to see the full document Click here to see slightly modified version of the document
  65. With P.G.Vijaya Sherry Chand, Shailesh R.Shukla) Ecological Knowledge of Rural Children: Educational Innovation and Natural Resource Conservation, presented at International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots, Jan 11-14, 1997, IIMA. -- N102 Click here to see the full document
  66. Framework for understanding the peoples’ knowledge systems and innovations around tree and forest management, 1997. – N 123 Click here to see the full document
  67. Farmers’ Innovations for Sustainable Resource Management and Conservation of Biological Diversity, published in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Food Security & Innovations: Successes and Lessons Learned at University of Hohenheim (Eds.Franz Heidhues/Andrea Fadani), Frankfurt, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp.97-112, 1997.-- N78B, N93 Click here to see the pre published version of the document
  68. Building upon What Poor are Rich in: Honey Bee Network Linking Grassroots Innovations, Enterprise, Investments and Institutions, paper presented at the 22nd World Conference on “Which Globalization: Opening Spaces for Civic Engagement” in Santiago de Copmpostela, Spain, May 21-24, 1997, and pub¬lished as “The Honey Bee Network: Linking Knowledge-rich Grassroots Innovations” in Development, Vol.40, No.4 (1997), pp.36-40. -- N82 Click here to see the full document
  69. Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Networking at Grassroots Level: Conserving Biodiversity through documentation, experimentation and value addition in local innovations for development and diffusion of sustainable technologies and institutions, published in Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research, Nos.37-38 1995-1996, pp 57-68. -- N26, N97 Click here to see the full document
  70. Roots of Creativity and Innovation in Indian Society: A Honey Bee Perspective; Lovraj Kumar Memori¬al Lecture delivered in Delhi on 30 August, 1996, organised by Society for Promotion of Wastelands development, Delhi, published in Wastelands News, Aug-Sep 1996, Vol..XII, No.1, pp.37-68. -- N53 Click here to see the full document
  71. (With P.G.Vijaya Sherry Chand, Kirit K Patel, S.Murali Krishna) Contracts for ‘Compensating’ Creativ¬ity: Framework for Using Market and Non-Market Instruments for Rewarding Grassroots Creativity and Innovation, published as the proceedings of the conference, Forum Belem I, `A Third Millennium for Humanity? The Search for Paths of Sustainable Development (Eds., Dietrich E.Leihner and Thomas A.Mitschein) under the title, “Contracts for `Compensating’ Creativity: Framework for Rewarding Grassroot Creativity and Innovation”, Frankfurt, Berlin; Peter Lang, pp. 201-217. -- N63 Click here to see the pre published version of the paper
  72. People’s Knowledge for Survival: Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Natural Resource Manage¬ment, presented at the IFAD’s International Conference on Hunger & Poverty in Brussels during November 16-23, 1995. -- N46 Click here to see the full document
  73. Survival through Innovations and Experimentation in High Risk Environment, presented at the Confer¬ence on Global Forum on Poverty and Environment, BCAS, Dhaka, during July 22-24, 1993. -- N16 Click here to see the full document
  74. Sustainability strategy for transforming drylands in Andhra Pradesh: Building upon local innovations, resource advantages and market potential, note prepared at the invitation of the Andhra Pradesh Government, 1993. – N 74 Click here to see the full document
  75. (In collaboration with Kirit K Patel, Astad Pastakia, Vijaya Sherry Chand, Shailesh and members of Honey Bee Network) Secular Basis of Sustainable Spirit: Understanding Roots of Creativity and Innova¬tions at Grassroots Level, presented at Congress on Traditional Sciences and Technologies of India, IIT, Bombay, on November 29, 1993. -- N27 Click here to see the full document
  76. Initiative, Innovation and Institutions, The Study of Emerging Trends In Voluntarism In Rural Develop¬ment In India. W.P. No.847, IIM, Ahmedabad. 1990, P 12, presented at an International Conference on Philanthropy and NGOs, Independent Sector, Boston, March 1990 and published under the title, Volun¬tarism in Rural Development in India: Initiative, Innovation, and Institutions in The Nonprofit Sector in the Global Community: Voices from Many Nations, A publication of Independent Sector, Washington, pp 422-437, Chapter 24, 1992. -- L8 Click here to see the full document
  77. Restructuring Public Systems Through Administrative Innovations: Will civil service respond? IIMA Working Paper 1053, September 1992 published in special issue of Administrator, Vol.XXXVII.,Apr.-Jun., 1992 under the title, “Administrative Innovations: Are we expecting too much?”, (pp.1-14) on Administrative Innovation also guest edited the volume. -- N7 Click here to see the full document
  78. (With Kirit K Patel) Survey of Farmers’ Innovations for Sustainable Development: Do Methods Matter?, Proceed¬ings of International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development, IIRR, Silang, Cavite, Philippines during September 20-26, pp.111-156, 1992. - N17 Click here to see the pre published version of the paper
  79. Farmers’ Innovations and Responsive Technologists: Building Sustainable Links, Presented at Interna¬tional Symposium on Strategies For Sustainable Mountain Agriculture, September 10-14, 1990, ICI¬MOD, Nepal. Published in Sustainable Mount Agriculture, entitled, “Farmers’ Innovations and Agricul¬tural Technologies” (Eds.N.S.Jodha, M.Banskota and Tej Partap), Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi. pp. 394-412., 1992. -- Click here to see the full document L18 -- N3
  80. Documenting Farmers Innovations: Or How do People Survive through Innovations In Risky Regions. IIM, Ahmedabad. 1990, P 8. – Click here to see the full document - L1
  81. (With J Capoor and Rekha N Shah) Inventory of Peasant Innovations for Sustainable Development- an annotated bibliography on Farmers: Innovations from all over the world, Presented at International symposium on Sustainability, ISA, New Delhi , Feb 1990 -- L5 Click here to see the full document
  82. Scientific Perception of Farmers Innovations in Dry Regions: Barriers to the Scientific Curiosity, Sep¬tember 1987, IIM working Paper No.699, presented at International Conference on Farmer Participa¬tory Research at IDS, Sussex, July,1987, published under the title “Scientists’ view of farmers’ prac¬tices in India: Barriers Interaction” in Farmer First, (Eds.Robert Chambers, Arnold Pacey, and Lori Ann Thrupp), pp 24-30, 1989. A slightly abridged version is published in Rural Finance, 1990, 3 (1), pp. 22 - 24. -- H5, J16, F9 Click here to see the full document
  83. Survival Under Stress: Socio Ecological Perspective on Farmers’ Innovation and Risk Adjust¬ments, W.P. No. 738, 1988, International Congress on Plant Physiology, New Delhi,1988., revised version published in Capitalism, Nature and Socialism,5,1990, 79-96. – J1, L23 Click here to see the full document
  84. Barriers to Innovations in Lower Bureaucracy, published in Vikalpa, Vol.7, No.5, October- December 1982, Page 267-274. Click here to see the full document -- C3
  85. With Brij Kothari and Kirit Patel) Networking Knowledge Rich Economically Poor Peoples, presented at the IMMA/World Bank Workshop on Applications of ICT in Rural Development, March 18-19, 1999 (Eds. Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware) Chapter 8, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2000, p.115 – 131 – N 113 Click here to see the full document.
  86. Towards a Learning Society: Transforming KITE (knowledge, information, technology and education) networks Click here to see the full document – N 126
  87. (With Riya Sinha, Dileep Koradia, T N Prakash, and P Vivekanandan and other members of Honey Bee Network) Building upon Grassroots’ Innovations: Articulating Social and Ethical Capital, Paper invited for presentation at the World Social Forum Workshop in Brazil during January 25-30, 2001. IIMA WP No.2001-02-06 – N 140 Click here to see the full document
  88. With Honey Bee Network team) Creativity, conservation, and compensation: Honey Bee Network approach to augment, sustainably utilize biodiversity, and share the benefits. – Paper presented at the Conference on Incentive Measures for Sustainable Use and Conservation of Agrobiodiversity: Experiences and Lessons from Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia, 11-14 September 2001 - N 129 Click here to see the full document Click here to see the shorter version of the paper
  89. Crops, Creativity and Compensation: Honey Bee network approach Click here to see the full document
  90. Portfolio theory of commons: Household Risk Adjustments and Perfor¬mance in an uncertain world Click here to see the full document
  91. Sink to Source: Transformation through Creativity, compassion, collaboration and competitiveness – Click here to see the full document N 139

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  92. CBD and TRIPS: Empowering knowledge rich, economically poor people through IPR reforms, presented at the National Seminar on TRIPS- CBD and Subsidy Issues at the WTO, organized by UNCTAD India on 25th August 2005, New Delhi, IIMA W.P.No.2006-04-06 – N175 Click here to see the full document
  93. (With Vikas Chandak) Agricultural Biotechnology in India: Ethics, Business and Politics, presented at the International Workshop on Agricultural biotechnology in the Developing World: Perceptions, Politics and Policies, organized by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich on 12th March 2004, IIMA Working Paper No.2004-07-01, July 2004, International Journal of Biotechnology, 2005, Vol 7 No 1/2/3, 212-225 – N161 Click here to see the full document, Click here to see the published version of the paper
  94. Cradle of Creativity: The case for in situ conservation of agro biodiversity and the role of traditional knowledge and IPRs. Paper presented at the Workshop on Property Rights Collective Action and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources, Sept 29 – Oct 2, 2003, Rome, Italy – N155 Click here to see the full document
  95. Reorienting Pest Management Strategies: Why should Corporations rethink their policies for sustainable pest management? Paper prepared for presentation at the IV Asia Pacific Crop Protection Conference, 2003 during September 18 – 19, 2003, New Delhi – N156 Click here to see the full document
  96. Sharing Benefits with the Conservators of Diversity” Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: A Source Book, CIP-UPWARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, Vol. 3, p. 608 - 613, March 2003 – N157 Click here to see the full document
  97. Farmers as Plant Breeders: Three cases from India, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: A Source Book, CIP-UPWARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, Vol. 2, p. 332-336, March 2003 – N158 Click here to see the full document
  98. Conserving Biodiversity and Rewarding Associated Knowledge and Innovation Systems: Honey Bee Perspective, Intellectual Property: Trade, Competition and Sustainable Development, World Trade Forum. Thomas Cottier, Petros C Mavroidis, Marion Panizzon and Simon Lacey (Eds.). Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, Vol. 3, Chapter 22, p. 373-401 Click here to see the full document
  99. Gene Patents and the Genetic Resource Recognition Fund: Sharing benefits from use of plant genetic resources by agro-biotechnological inventions and traditional agricultural practices, W.P.No.2002-08—01, August 2002, A case study based on the data collected from Mali. Click here to see the full document - N141
  100. Rewarding Conservation of Biological and Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creativity, IIMA W.P.No.2003-01-06, January 2003,. – This is a study on the role of intellectual property rights in the sharing of benefits arising from the use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge, based on the data collected from Mali, Nigeria and India,” brought out in CD format by WIPO-UNEP, 2002. (Ref: Document/UNEP/CBD/COP/5/INF/26 dated 10 May, 2000)- N142 Click here to see the full document
  101. (With Sanjeev Saxena, Vikas Chandak, Shrabani B.Ghosh, Riya Sinha and Neeru Jain) Costs of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in India, published in “Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies” (Ed. Detlef Virchow), Berlin, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, p. 137 – 174, 2003. – N149 Click here to see the pre published version of the paper
  102. Creativity, Conservation and Compensation: The Honey Bee Network Approach to Providing Incentives for Sustainably Utilising Biodiversity, published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Incentive Measures for sustainable use and Conservation of Agrobiodiversity: Experiences and Lessons from Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia, 11-14 September 2001, p. 141-152. Click here to see the full document
  103. Precaution and the survival threshold: Oscillations between the Plimsoll Lines, Keynote paper presented at the conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary Principle Harvard University, Boston, 22-23 September 2000 Click here to see the full document , Click here to see another version of the paper
  104. Policy Dialogue on Access to Biodiversity and Benefit Sharing – National Workshop on Incentives, Institutions and Innovations, April 10-12, 1998 -- N 134 Click here to see a part of the paper
  105. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability in Rural Development: An Executive Summary, Proceedings of the International Training Workshop on Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability in Rural Development: A Natural Resource Perspective -, held at IIMA during March 11-13, 1999. New Delhi, Calcutta, Oxford & IBH Publish Co Pvt. Ltd. 2001, Click here to see the full document
  106. Science, Sustainability and Social Purpose: Barriers to Effective Articulation, Dialogue and Utilization of Formal and Informal Science in Public Policy, published in International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol.2, No.3, 1999; UK, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., pp.368-371; IIMA Working Paper No: 99-12-02, December 1999 -- N110 Click here to see the full document
  107. Rewarding Creativity for Conserving Diversity in Third World: Can IPR Regime Serve the Needs of Contemporary and Traditional Knowledge Experts and Communities in Third World? Paper presented in AIPPI Forum (Sep 10-14, 1996) on Ethical and Ecological Aspects of IPRs, Interlaken, Switzerland on 13 Sep, 1996, IIMA WP No.1339, November 1996; published in Strategic Issues of Industrial Property Management in a Globalising Economy – APPI Forum Series (Eds. Thomas Cottier, Peter Widmer and Katharina Schindler), Oxford, Portland and Oregon; Hart Publishing, 1999, pp.119-129. -- N60, N91 Click here to see the full document
  108. (With Srinivas Chokkakula) Sustaining Success and Learning From Failures: Strengthening Farmers’ Institution for Watershed Management, published in The Status of Formal Watershed Management in Asia (Ed. Prem N Sharma and Mohan P.Wagley), pp.14-18, 1999. Click here to see the full document
  109. Compensating Local Communities for Conserving Biodiversity: How Much, Who Will, How and When, 1995, and published as Rewarding Local Communities for Conserving Biodiversity: The Case of the Honey Bee in Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging Strategies (Eds.Lakshman D.Guruswamy and Jeffrey A McNeely) Durham and London: Duke University Press,pp.180-189, 1998, IIMA WP No.99-10-04, October 1999 -- N101, N34 Click here to see the pre published version of the paper
  110. Understanding Patents: a primer - a presentation made to Govt. of Gujarat and Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industries -- N103 Click here to see the full document
  111. Assessing Biological Diversity and Associative Knowledge System: Can Ethics Influence Equity?, 1998. -- N45, N61 Click here to see the full document
  112. Community Information Services: A Proposal for creating Knowledge Networks for Creativity, Paper presented at the Conference on Information Today and Tomorrow at Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai on 2nd September, 1998. -- N 105 Click here to see the full document
  113. (With S.Deshmukh, M.G.Gogate) Sacred Groves and Biological Diversity: Providing New Dimensions to Conservation Issues, published in “Conserving the Sacred For Biodiversity Management” (Eds.,P.S.Ramakrishnan, K.G.Saxena and U.M.Chandrashekara), New Delhi and Calcutta, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., pp.415-421, 1998) – N87 (A) Click here to see the full document
  114. Desirability and Feasibility of Creating Database for Traditional Medicines and Biodiversity Resources: National and International Dimensions, papers presented at Asian Regional Consultation on Traditional Medicine and Intellectual Property Rights, organised by Ministry of Industry, Deptt. Of Indian Systems of Medicine, GOI & WIPO, New Delhi on October 8, 1998 – N 112A Click here to see the full document
  115. Tending this spirit: Sustaining the Sacred - Policy and Institutional Aspects of Sacred Groves, presented at the Conference on Role of Sacred Groves in the field of Sustainable Development at Peechi, Kerala, December 9-11 December, 1997 and published as “Policy and Institutional Aspects of Sacred Groves: Tending the Spirit, Sustaining the Sacred,” in Conserving the Sacred For Biodiversity Management (Eds., P.S.Ramakrishnan, K.G.Saxena and U.M.Chandrashekara), New Delhi and Calcutta, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., pp.397-414, 1998 -- N87 Click here to see the full document
  116. Strategic Opportunities in Managing IPRs: Biodiversity, Drug Industry and Emerging Options, IIMA Working Paper No.98-12-11, December, 1998 -- N108 Click here to see the full document
  117. Portfolio approach to Recognising, Respecting, and Rewarding Creativity and Innovation in Conservation, 1998. Click here to see the full document
  118. Institutional Arrangements for Conserving and Promoting Medicinal Plants Diversity and Augmenting Contemporary and Traditional Knowledge: Perspectives on Intellectual Property Rights and Sui Generis Systems, 1998 – N 117 Click here to see the full document
  119. Framework for setting up National Board for Conservation and Augmentation of Medicinal Plants, 1998 -- Click here to see the full document N 118
  120. Enigma of Intellectual Property Rights: How long shall we miss the opportunities?, Invited paper pre¬sented at the 49th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Trivandrum Dec 20, 1997.-- N94 Click here to see the full document.
  121. (With Vijaya Sherry Chand, Dea de Lima Vidal, and A.E.Nivsarkar) Role of Farmers in Use, Develop¬ment and Maintenance of Animal Genetic Resources: Building Upon Indigenous Knowledge and Institutions. Paper prepared for 6th WCGALP Congress. -- N92 Click here to see the full document
  122. Institutional Pathways for Sustainability: A note for discussion, presented at Forum 97: New Linkages in Conservation and Development in Istanbul, Turkey, November 16-19, 1997. -- N90 Click here to see the full document
  123. (With Kirit K Patel, et al) Participatory Research: Will the Koel Hatch the Crow’s Eggs, paper presented in the International Seminar on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Develop¬ment, organised by CIAT, Colombia, 1996; Published in New Frontiers in Participatory Research and Gender Analysis, as proceedings of the Conference, 1997, pp.209-243.-- N83 Click here to see the pre published version of the paper
  124. Technologies, Institutions and Incentives for Conservation of Biodiversity in Non-OECD Countries: Assessing Needs for Technical Co-operation, presented at OECD Conference on Biodiversity Conserva¬tion Incentive Measures in Cairns, Australia, March 25-29, 1996, published in the proceedings, “Invest¬ing In Biological Diversity: The Cairns Conference”, Paris: OECD,1997, pp.305-329. --- N66 Click here to see the full document
  125. Social and Ethical Dimensions of Ecological Economics, Key Note Paper invited presentation at the Conference, Down to Earth of International Society of Ecological Economics, Costa Rica, October, 1994, in Ed. Robert Constanza, Oleman Segura and Juan Martinez-Alier, Getting Down To Earth: Prac¬tical Applications of Ecologial Economics, Washington DC: Island Press, 1996, 91-116 -- N48 Click here to see the full document
  126. The Nature, Agriculture and Nurturing Societies: Learning from Those Who Care and Conserve: Honey Bee Experience, paper presented in the Annual Conference of CEDIA organised in Copenhagen, Denmark during 13 - 15 October, 1996 on the theme of “A World Market for Agronomists: Can a Starving and a Well-fed Communicate?” -- N64 Click here to see the full document
  127. Getting Creative Individuals and Communities Their Due: Framework for Operationalizing Article 8J and 10C. Draft paper invited by CBD Secretariat. 1996 -- N56 Click here to see the full document
  128. Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation and Utilisation of Animal Germplasm, Paper prepared for FAO’s Strategy for conservation of global animal germplasm, 1996, Paper Prepared for Expert Group consulta¬tion for Global Animal Diversity Conservation, FAO, Rome Click here to see the full document
  129. Dilemma in Conservation of Biodiversity: Ethical, Equity and Moral Issues — a review, Prepared for a workshop of Pew Conservation Scholars on Developing Ethical Guidelines for Accessing Biodiversity, Arizona, October, 1994, published under the title, “Ethical Dilemmas in Conservation of Biodiversity: Towards Developing Globally Acceptable Ethical Guidelines” in Eubios Journal of Asian and Interna¬tional Bioethics 5 (Japan), March 1995, pp.40-46 -- N35 Click here to see the full document
  130. Suggested Ethical Guidelines for Accessing and Exploring Biodiversity - A Pew Conservation Scholars Initiative, October 21, 1994 (A collective effort of Pew Conservation Scholars based on three background notes including G 16 and G 17), published in Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 5 (Japan), March 1995, pp.38-40. -- N28, N51 Click here to see the full document
  131. Knowledge Centre: Building Upon What People Know, presented at the IFAD’s International Conference on Hunger & Poverty in Brussels during November 16-23, 1995. -- N43 Click here to see the full document
  132. Commercialization of agricultural technologies, A note prepared for discussion at ICAR on the subject, 1994. -- N36 Click here to see the full document
  133. With Vijaya Sherry Chand) Alternatives for Action: SRISTI’s Vision on Prioritization of Investments under Biodiversity Convention - A Submission to Global Biodiversity Forum, Bahamas, November 26-29, 1994. --- N29 Click here to see the full document
  134. Compensating Local Communities for Conserving Biodiversity: Shall We Save the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs So Long, IIMA Working Paper No.1206, August 1994. - Click here to see the full document - N21
  135. Ethical Issues in Prospecting Biodiversity, IIMA Working Paper No.1205, August 1994. --N25 Click here to see the full document
  136. Biotechnology for Livestock Improvement: Some issues and perspectives, published in Commercializa¬tion of Biotechnologies for Agriculture and Aquaculture: Status and Constraints in India (eds., U.K.Srivastava, S.Chandrasekhar), New Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., pp.117-126, 1993. -- N11C Click here to see the full document
  137. (With Aseem Prakash) On Internalization of Externalities, IIMA WP No.1126, August 1993. -- N12 Click here to see the full document
  138. Eco Institutional Perspective on Maintaining Diversity, presented at the Second Conference of Interna¬tional Society of Ecological Economics on Investing in Natural Capital, Stockholm, August 1992, IIMA W.P No.1060, 1992 -- N8 Click here to see the full document
  139. Why does poverty persist in regions of high biodiversity? : A case for indigenous property right system, Paper invited for the International conference on Property Rights and Genetic Resources sponsored by IUCN, UNEP and ACTS at Kenya, June 10-16, 1991. -- M5 Click here to see the full document
  140. (With Kirit K Patel and B.L.Patil) Conserving Diversity for Sustainable Development, The Case of Plants of Insecticidal and Veterinary Medicine Importance. Presented at Project Design Workshop on Genetic Resources for Sustainable Agriculture, convened by M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation, Madras, November 22 - 23, 1991. IIMA Working Paper No.1003. Click here to see the full document -- N11
  141. Sustainability Through Biodiversity: Designing Crucible of Culture, Creativity and Conscience. Pre¬sented at International Conference on Biodiversity and Conservation held at Danish Parliament, Copen¬hagen, November 8, 1991. IIMA Working Paper No.1005; published in the book, Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability in Rural Development: A Natural Resource Perspective. (Ed., Anil K Gupta) New Delhi and Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., 2001, pp. 179 - 226. -- N2 Click here to see the full document
  142. Biodiversity and Poverty vis-à-vis Biotechnology and Prosperity. IIMA Working Paper No.954., August 1991.-- M6 Click here to see the full document
  143. Portfolio of Incentives for Conservation of Biodiversity: Honey Bee Perspective Click here to see the full document
  144. (With Y. Sulochana) Models Of Technology Generation & Diffusion: A Review, EEP II/1983 Click here to see the full document
  145. (With Vijaya Sherry Chand) A River Without Tributaries: Liberating the Mind Through Harnessing Grassroots Creativity, published in The Indian Journal of Public Administration (Quarterly Journal of The Indian Institute of Public Administration), July-Sept 1996, Vol.XLII, No.3, pg.288-301 -- N75 Click here to see the full document

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