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| Author(s): |
Andréia Mara Pereira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Economia |
| Defense date: | 2009-02-18 |
| Examining board members: |
José Maria Ferreira Jardim da Silveira;
Bastiaan Reydon;
Maria Beatriz Machado Bonacelli
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| Advisor: | José Maria Ferreira Jardim da Silveira |
| Abstract | |
The focus of this master's thesis is to describe what are the institutional and economic determinants of Bioprospecting in Brazil. For this purpose, the principle obstacles for bioprospecting in this country were identified, calling attention to the fact that there are many specificities which must be considered in the elaboration of the institutional designs for bioprospecting, since these practices involve agents whose interests do not always converge. To better visualize this framework, national and international case studies were performed and the Institutional Economy applied to bioprospecting. Among the cases analyzed, it was identified that when there is participation of the intermediary institutions in the negotiation process, the interests of all parties are more clearly met. This conjuncture was confirmed by the data resulting from an opinion poll executed by means of a questionaire constructed in order to discover the contemporary effects and challenges of bioprospecting, using a multicriterial tool called AHP. The results demonstrate that the institutional environment should be strengthened, in order to assure the interests of those who are potentially invested in bioprospecting through improving cooperative actions and intellectual property rights. It was found that the central area of interest for those who were interviewed is environmental, this being the priority for the creation of an excellent "institutional model. (AU) | |