INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AHMEDABAD y INDIA Research and Publications Ethical issues in accessing people's knowledge and innovations: Need for revisiting research protocols with specific reference to low cost health technologies Anil K. Gupta W.P. No.2007-07-05 July 2007 The main objective of the working paper series of the IIMA is to help faculty members, research staff and doctoral students to speedily share their research findings with professional colleagues and test their research findings at the pre-publication stage. IIMA is committed to maintain academic freedom. The opinion(s), view(s) and conclusion(s) expressed in the working paper are those of the authors and not that of IIMA. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AHMEDABAD-380 015 INDIA