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Global Impact via International Scholarly Conferences
from Research Report 2021-2022: UofG's Lang School of Business and Economics
by Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
Even though the pandemic constrained travel, Lang faculty persevered and disseminated their findings at conferences hosted around the world including Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States.
International Partnership supported by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
In 2021, the Shastri Indo-Canadian institute awarded a Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG) grant to co-applicants Dr. Tirtha Dhar, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies along with Dr. Arindam Banik, International Management Institute, India
The grant supports Institutional collaboration in research and development for a period of two years and is intended to fill information gaps for policy makers and others influencing the policy-making process.
Project title: A Tale of North-South IPR Conflicts and Cooperation: Exploring the interplay of Market Structure, FDI, Imitation, Innovation and IPRs in the Pharma Industry in India and Canada
The proposed study plans to extend the general North-South framework and illuminate the intellectual property rights (IPR) debate by analyzing the effects of tighter IPRs on foreign direct investment (FDI), innovation, and imitation in the context of the pharmaceutical sector in India and Canada.
