Acronym BIOs-POLAR
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Legal frameworks for bioprospecting and bioinnovation in Polar Regions Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Tore Henriksen Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (Norway)
Institutions involved
FNI - Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway) ,
NCLOS - Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (Norway) ,
UNU - United Nations University (Japan) ,
Start year 2016 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 645,161 Website https://en.uit.no/prosjekter/prosjekt?p_document_id=495726 Summary "Legal regulation of the use of genetic material from the polar areas is currently undergoing global legal and political discussions. Bioprospecting and bio-innovation have the potential to create high value products in pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and other life science industries. Accordingly, it is important to understand how the potential value of genetic resources in the Arctic and Antarctic is affected by the legal conditions for access and rights to use the material over the long term. For Norway, marine and polar areas have always been of core interest for the exploration and exploitation of natural resources.
The research question is whether and how current legal uncertainty and flux concerning the regulation of the use of genetic resources create barriers for or facilitates commercial and academic activities. The BIOs-POLAR project consists of four research topics (“work packages” or WPs), each of which addresses this overall question through a combination of approaches. First, by exploring and mapping the current legal situation; second, by empirically analysing actual practices when it comes to patenting and academic publications; third, by studying how companies regard and react strategically to the current legal situation; and finally, by using the findings to assist possible future regulations by providing Norwegian policymakers with research and informing the ongoing negotiation processes in relevant forums. The BIOs-POLAR project applies law as the main discipline, but also draws on social sciences, notably bibliometrics, scientometrics, quantitative analyses and political science in an interdisciplinary research project."
Keywords
Biotechnology;
Bioprospecting;
Policy;
Exploitation;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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