A draft bill on public funded research and development prepared by the department of biotechnology proposes grant of financial incentives to scientists to patent and sell their own research. This is a good example of how legal tinkering or half-baked institutional changes based on inadequate analysis of the existing system will instead restrain science.

Rajeswari Sarala Raina

International Relations and Governance Studies

(SoHSS) School of Humanities and Social Sciences

A. Bhatta

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