First given as gifts to arriving explorers, it didn’t take long for colonizers to demand hammocks as tribute. In A Nutshell ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to take full inventory of all indigenous inventions and innovations for possible financial assistance. Maryam ...

Boyer, who is Ojibwe, builds robots that teach Indigenous languages. Danielle Boyer knew she was interested in robotics from a young age. But with limited learning resources -- a problem many Native ...

IPONZ can then decide to send the application to the Patents Māori Advisory Committee, which advises on whether an invention is derived from Māori traditional knowledge or from indigenous plants or ...

The last year has highlighted America’s deep divides over identity and its struggles with how to memorialize the past. In the midst of these very public debates, indigenous artists are taking a ...

At the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at WIPO in Geneva, the South African Minister for Science and ...

Introduction : definitions, terminology and the "invention of tradition" -- The "God controversy" in pre-Christian indigenous religions -- The debate over Io as the pre-Christian Māori supreme being - ...

Creating a compendium of modern inventions, the Renaissance artist Johannes Stradanus featured the printing press, the canon, the clock, and distillation. And then there was his drawing depicting the ...

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...

When China dropped its indigenous IP requirements from central government procurement policies, foreign rights holders applauded. However, Dan Prud’homme warns that preferences for indigenous IP are ...