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The historical experience of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) spans three distinct periods since 1970. Initially, IDRC possessed a substantial degree of autonomy, with project funding to southern recipients. Starting in 1991, waves of budget cuts in the federal government heightened demands to control operating costs and to demonstrate the utility of research. Following restructuring, IDRC increasingly expected projects to contribute to Board-approved program strategies. The twenty-first century witnessed an emphasis on aligning with the priorities of Canada’s foreign policy. Competitive calls for proposals joined the older grantmaking practices based on proactive project development by IDRC staff and responding to unsolicited proposals and partnerships.

For social sciences to play their emancipatory as well as instrumental role in public policymaking, it is imperative that the social science research ecosystem is dynamic and vibrant, institutions governing the research ecosystem are robust and effective, and those producing good quality research and researchers are strong and well governed. Underlying these is a serious issue about funding and availability of data on social science research (SSR) to facilitate informed decision-making and enable design of program policies and strategies. In collaboration with the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) Program of IDRC, ICSSR led this work to examine the present status of social science in the country. This Volume examines the status of SSR with respect to its multiple dimensions and recommends the need for a comprehensive national social science policy in India that is adequately resourced and delivered through well-governed national institutions in order to create a credible research culture in social sciences.

This chapter focusses on the social science research (SSR) funding from non-governmental sources. It was observed that the International donors and corporate are important and rapidly emerging source of funding in India. The funding by these two sources comes in the form of development grants for research project on priority issues like poverty alleviation, women empowerment, health, education and others stemming out of the millennium development goals or now, the sustainable development goals. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the companies also increased manifold. The study found that the funding support to education has increased during the reference period, on the priority issues like health and sanitation, women’s empowerment, poverty eradication, and protection of nation heritage and culture.

Trademark rights in Korea are based on registration. The Trademark Decree was promulgated in 1908 and the Trademark Act was firstly enacted and enforced on November 28, 1949. Since that time, the Trademark Act has been amended 39 times, with the most recent amendment on June 11, 2014 (this amendment took effect as of June 11, 2014). The Trademark Act is composed of ten chapters divided into General Provisions, Requirements and Application for Trademark Registration, Examination, Trademark Registration Fees and Trademark Registration, Trademark Rights, Protection of Owners of Trademark Rights, Trial, Retrial and Litigation, International Application under the Protocol, and Supplementary Provisions.