Hyderabad, October 19: Warning that development model followed by industrialised nations has the potential to threaten the existence of developing countries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that there was a need for exploring a more sustainable path for growth.
Inaugurating the annual meeting of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World here, Singh said the sharing of intellectual property rights was a major a roadblock in collaborative research efforts for commercial applications.
“We need to address this problem head on”, he said.
The Prime Minister said that the developing world faces a common challenges like combating tropical diseases, transforming traditional agriculture and predicting and tackling natural disasters.
“These problems of under-development do not receive adequate attention in the advanced industrialised countries.
Nor should we expect others to solve our problems,” he said.
–Agencies