This is the third volume in our Access to Knowledge series. India is a $1
trillion economy which nevertheless struggles with a very high poverty rate and
very low access to knowledge for almost seventy percent of its population which
lives in rural areas.
This volume features four parts on current issues facing intellectual property,
development policy (especially rural development policy) and associated
innovation, from the Indian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars
taking an interdisciplinary approach and affiliated to Indian or American
universities and Indian think-tanks. Each examines a policy area that
significantly impacts access to knowledge. These include information and
communications technology for development; the Indian