摘要
This study assesses the dynamics of different Geographical Indication (GI) systems as we seek to showcase how different rural communities capitalised on GI as a tool to secure their heritage/place-based product reputations. The cases of Lugu Dong Ding Oolong Tea of Taiwan and Gobi Desert Camel Wool of Mongolia are used to provide important contexts of development—and in turn, enable us to undertake a comparative exercise to reveal the differences in terms of pre-condition settings, impacts and pursuit of rural industrial development. Taiwan's Certification Trademark system gained protection of origin-place quality reputation for its rural industrial communities. Meanwhile, Mongolia's Sui Generis appropriated the idea of GI for construction of desirable value chains for productive activities. Our observations and derived typology are useful as hindsight on what settings are conducive for GI protection and how they would mould a governing structure for productive activities.