Indigenous Peoples' Innovation

Peter Drahos and Susy Frankel (eds)

Traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems. This book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation.  The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of intellectual property when it comes to supporting innovation by indigenous people.

This collection of essays was developed from the papers presented at the NZCIEL conference held in December 2010, Trade Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Assets of Indigenous Peoples: The Developmental Frontier. The publication is available online and can be downloaded for free.