Biopiracy
Megatrend
Long-term, major change of a global nature; changing the balance of power, the existing way of operating.
Long-term, major change of a global nature; changing the balance of power, the existing way of operating.
- WORLD OF WAR
Time perspective
Trends are placed in four time perspectives:
NOW – perspective now;
NEW – short-term perspective (1-5 years);
NEXT – medium-term perspective (5-15 years);
BEYOND – perspective for the long term (15+ years).
Trends are placed in four time perspectives:
NOW – perspective now;
NEW – short-term perspective (1-5 years);
NEXT – medium-term perspective (5-15 years);
BEYOND – perspective for the long term (15+ years).
- Now
- New
- Next
- Beyond
Trend Momentum Index TM
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infuture.institute’s proprietary indicator for assessing the relevance of trends. The TMI is calculated dynamically based on a wide range of data, including, among others, regulations introduced, research, patents filed, impact on sustainability goals, investments or the value of individual markets.
Definition of a trend
A trend that is strongly linked to the raw material crisis and, at the same time, to the way our world functions, based on profit generation. Biopiracy is the illegal or unethical use of a country’s biological resources or traditional knowledge by other countries or companies/institutions outside the area, for commercial purposes. Put differently, biopiracy involves the theft, appropriation, patenting or use of the genetic, biological or traditional resources of local communities/ecosystems, without their informed consent or without due compensation. Biopiracy not only contributes to inequality in access to the benefits of biological resources, but also violates or infringes on intellectual, cultural and ecological property rights.
Trend Momentum Index TM
Reasons for the trend
- globalisation, which gives easy access to remote ecosystems and traditional knowledge of local communities, which encourages illegal harvesting and commercialisation of biological resources,
- economic inequality (developed countries and corporations have the financial and technological resources to exploit the biological resources of poorer countries and communities, which in turn lack the means to defend their rights),
- gaps in international and national law,
- raw material crisis and the increasing value of biological resources in the pharmaceutical industry, cosmetics, agriculture, etc., which stimulates the search for unique ingredients from outside one’s own ecosystem,
- growth-based economics, including intense competition in global markets that encourages the extraction of new biological resources in unethical ways.
Insights
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Consequences of the trend
- disruption of local markets, including, in particular, loss of income for local communities and, as a consequence, widening inequalities between developing and developed countries,
- increasing social and international tensions over access to resources,
- monopolisation of natural resources,
- strengthening movements for biological sovereignty.
Supporting technologies
genetic engineering, biotechnology
Industries most sensitive to the trend
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, textiles, food industry