Contents:
- India’s R&D estimates are an incomplete picture
- Access and benefit-sharing- principles on use of indigenous medicine
India’s R&D Estimates Are An Incomplete Picture
Context:
As per the latest Research and Development Statistics, published by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2020, the R&D spending in 2017-18 by foreign MNCs in India is only 10% of what U.S. firms have reported to have spent in India on R&D.
Relevance:
GS II- Polity and Governance
GS III: Indian Economy and issues relating to Planning, Mobilization of Resources; Government Budgeting; Science and Technology- Developments and their Applications and Effects in Everyday Life
Dimensions of the Article:
- India’s R&D Expenditure
- India’s GERD data are an underestimate
- Challenges in the current system
- Factors that make the official R&D estimates grossly inadequate
- Figures: R&D funding in India
- Way Forward
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Access and Benefit-Sharing- Principles On Use of Indigenous Medicine
Context:
A group of practitioners, activists, scholars, lawyers and human rights defenders has come together and proposed a set of ethical guidelines that they say can guide Western psychedelic research and practice on traditional indigenous medicines.
Relevance:
GS II- Health
Dimensions of the Article:
- Ethical principles to address indigenous concerns:
- Use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes
- What are the concerns
- Frameworks that mention indigenous rights to the use and development of their traditional medicines and related practices
- What is traditional medicine?
- Way Forward
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