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Sunil Kanwar, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Research: Intellectual Property Rights with Reference to Agriculture
Host: Yale University, Department of Economics, New Haven, CT,
July 2000-June 2001

 

Intellectual property rights in agriculture is a hot topic in developing countries, according to Sunil Kanwar, an assistant professor in the economics department at the University of Delhi in Delhi, India.

"Given that agriculture constitutes the mainstay of most developing economies even today, the issues relating to intellectual property protection in agriculture are perceived to be of crucial importance for their economic development," he states.

Sunil's Fulbright grant to Yale University enabled him to research intellectual property rights specifically in relation to their implications for research and development, technological change and economic growth. He also studied issues relating to the breadth of intellectual property protection and the patentability of life forms.

Sunil enjoyed his experience at Yale. "I found the faculty quite friendly and accessible. Getting together with colleagues, therefore, either for discussions or just plain talk was something that I looked forward to. I was able to strike up useful working relationships with several faculty. The seminars and workshops, the brown-bag discussion groups and lectures, were all very useful."

In addition, Sunil found that, "True to the American academic tradition, one was able to sit in on colloquia in other departments as well."

For example, he sat in on the sociology department's seminars and was very pleased to be able to incorporate ideas and techniques from other disciplines. "In all, I feel that I benefited a lot from associating with some of the best minds in academe," he states.

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