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The term "technology" refers to the application of knowledge for practical purposes.
The field of "green technology" encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods and materials, from techniques for generating energy to non-toxic cleaning products. The present expectation is that this field will bring innovation and changes in daily life of similar magnitude to the "information technology" explosion over the last two decades. In these early stages, it is impossible to predict what "green technology" may eventually encompass.  The impact of different intellectual property approaches on the spreading of green technologies is debated on Seed Magazine, which gathered five experts and asked them to answer the following question: “How can we reconcile the useful qualities of the current patent system with the need for widespread use of green tech?”. The answers come from people with different backgrounds and different kind of involvement with the open access movement: Federico Caprotti, John Wilbanks, Michele Boldrin, Carlos Serrano and Dennis Pamlin. Their proposals are quiet diverse but they agree on the necessity of acting ont the link between IPRs and technological innovation. My conclusion: We can find a way to balance the incentives of corporate innovators while making sure the innovators in the developing world have the means to solve their own problems thru proper essay writing. We’ve seen similar solutions take root in cultural commerce with extraordinary results, from the existence of Wikipedia to Nine Inch Nails making millions of dollars on songs they also gave away on the internet for free. We can do this for patents, and we can do this for sustainability technology. But it can’t be done if the rhetoric around the conversation is consistently fueled by maximalism and confrontation. |
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