Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/117930 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 56.2004
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Bioprospection practices have proliferated as biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies engage in the collection and genetic screening of biological and genetic resources throughout the world. The purpose of this article is to examine the competing proposals for the institutional framing of bioprospection based on the provisions of access and benefit-sharing embodied in the Convention on Biological Diversity. In particular, through evaluating the contribution of neo-institutionalist and evolutionist propositions in economic theory our aim is to define the conditions of a more reflexive approach to governance in the context of the problem of the emergent regime on access and benefit sharing.
Subjects: 
Bioprospection
Access and benefit sharing
Neo-Institutionalist economics
Genetic resources
Governance
Biodiversity
JEL: 
B52
O30
Q21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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