GUWAHATI, July 23 - Bio Science experts and technocrats from across the country, who had gathered for the three-day national conference on �Intellectual Property Right in Bio Sciences for Scientists from North East Indian States� at the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM), unanimously took a resolution that a special core group should be set up for creating awareness about IPR in the North East.
The resolution was taken so that students, researchers, scholars and all other end users of technology could derive maximum benefit from it. This resolution came during the valedictory session of the conference held on Thursday. In his presidential remarks, Dr PG Rao, VC of USTM, suggested that the core group could function from Guwahati and experts from ICAR, ICMR, Central-State-Private universities could be its members.
On the concluding day, Dr Shashank Mauria, Additional Director General, ICAR New Delhi, deliberated on �Intellectual Property and Technology Management in Agriculture � Indian Perspective.� He explained the economic values of different ecosystem services and efforts of ICAR in the endeavour for cataloguing these values.
Dr Pritom Deb, coordinator of the IPR Cell at Tezpur University, spoke on �Weaving Intellectual Property Rights in creativity, knowledge creation, innovation and technology management.� He gave a detailed description of the initiative undertaken by the Tezpur University in ensuring IPR of the muga and mukha designs of the Lakhimpur district.
Dr Jyoti B Dutta of Assam Agricultural University; Dr Abha Agnihotri of Amity University, UP; Dr Amit Kharkwal of AIMT; and Dr Mukul Kumar of the Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, also spoke on the concluding day of the meet, said a statement.
GUWAHATI, July 23 - Bio Science experts and technocrats from across the country, who had gathered for the three-day national conference on �Intellectual Property Right in Bio Sciences for Scientists from North East Indian States� at the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM), unanimously took a resolution that a special core group should be set up for creating awareness about IPR in the North East.
The resolution was taken so that students, researchers, scholars and all other end users of technology could derive maximum benefit from it. This resolution came during the valedictory session of the conference held on Thursday. In his presidential remarks, Dr PG Rao, VC of USTM, suggested that the core group could function from Guwahati and experts from ICAR, ICMR, Central-State-Private universities could be its members.
On the concluding day, Dr Shashank Mauria, Additional Director General, ICAR New Delhi, deliberated on �Intellectual Property and Technology Management in Agriculture � Indian Perspective.� He explained the economic values of different ecosystem services and efforts of ICAR in the endeavour for cataloguing these values.
Dr Pritom Deb, coordinator of the IPR Cell at Tezpur University, spoke on �Weaving Intellectual Property Rights in creativity, knowledge creation, innovation and technology management.� He gave a detailed description of the initiative undertaken by the Tezpur University in ensuring IPR of the muga and mukha designs of the Lakhimpur district.
Dr Jyoti B Dutta of Assam Agricultural University; Dr Abha Agnihotri of Amity University, UP; Dr Amit Kharkwal of AIMT; and Dr Mukul Kumar of the Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, also spoke on the concluding day of the meet, said a statement.
