Intellectual Property and Development Task Force Meeting, Santiago, 2005
December 5, 2005
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Santiago, Chile
An important part of success in development and attaining milestones such as the Millennium Development Goals depends on closing the knowledge, technology, and healthcare gaps between rich and poor countries. The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) is helping to define what a development agenda for intellectual property might look like. Given its impacts on healthcare, access to drugs, and technology, intellectual property policy will impact the development of all countries.
Partners
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
The minimum standards set by the TRIPS agreement; the principle of special and differential treatment at the multilateral level; the impact of bilateral negotiations on developing countries' policy; TRIPS plus provisions; the public policy implications of the pharmaceutical and IT industries; and initiatives like the proposal presented by Argentina and Brazil on the establishment of a new development agenda within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) are only some of the controversial issues at the center of international debate on intellectual property.There is a need to create a pragmatic and non-ideological discussion and literature on Intellectual Property.
To meet this need, the IPD Task Force on Intellectual Property and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean have organized a two-day meeting and round table discussion on intellectual property and development. International experts, academics and policymakers will convene to marshal what history, theory, evidence and solid policy analyses show in terms of intellectual property management and development patterns.
Additional Related/Relevant Information
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Mario Cimoli
Task Force Chair
Professor of Economics
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Benjamin Coriat
Task Force Member
Professor of Economics
Universite de Paris 13
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Alvaro Diaz
Task Force Member
Regional Adviser, Brazil
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-UN)
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Giovanni Dosi
Task Force Chair
Professor of Economics
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa
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James Love
Task Force Member
Director
Knowledge Ecology International
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Keith Maskus
Task Force Member
Professor and Department Chair
University of Colorado at Boulder
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Andrew Mclaughlin
Task Force Member
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
Administration of President Barack Obama
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Andres Moncayo
Task Force Member
Professor
University de Buenos Aires
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Sisule Musungu
Task Force Member
Team Leader, Programme on International Trade & Development
South Centre
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Luigi Orsenigo
Task Force Member
Professor, Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies
Bocconi University
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Carlos Pacheco
Task Force Member
UNI Campinas
University of Cantina
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Jerome Reichman
Task Force Chair
Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law
Duke Law School
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Sanya Reid Smith
Task Force Member
Third World Network
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Pedro Roffe
Task Force Member
Director
ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development
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Sherif Saadallah
Task Force Member
Executive Director, Economic Development Bureau for Arab Countries
World Intellectual Property Organization
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Suzanne Scotchmer
Task Force Chair
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley
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Luis Villarroel
Task Force Member
Copyright Legal Adviser
Ministry of Education of Chile
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Suwit Wibulpolprasert
Task Force Member
Senior Advisor on Health Economics
Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Intellectual Property and Development: Observations from the UK
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Global Status and Trends in Intellectual Property Claims: Genomics, Proteomics and Biotechnology
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Global Status and Trends in Intellectual Property Claims: Microorganisms
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Using Liability Rules to Stimulate Local Innovation in Developing Countries: Application to Traditional Knowledge
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Managing the Challenge of a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime
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The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods
242kb pdf Global trade and investment have become increasingly liberalized in recent decades. This liberalization has lately been accompanied by substantive new requirements for strong minimum standards of intellectual property (IP) protection, which moves the world economy toward harmonized private rights in knowledge goods. While this trend may have beneficial impacts in terms of innovation and technology diffusion, such impacts would not be evenly distributed across countries. Deep questions also arise about whether such globalization of rights to information will raise roadblocks to the national and international provision of such public goods as environmental protection, public health, education, and scientific advance. This chapter argues that the globalized IP regime will strongly affect prospects for technology transfer and competition in developing countries. In turn, these nations must determine how to implement such standards in a pro- competitive manner and how to foster innovation and competition in their own markets. Developing countries may need to take the lead in policy experimentation and IP innovation in order to offset overly protectionist tendencies in the rich countries and to maintain the supply of global public goods in an emerging transnational system of innovation. |
International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalize IP Regime Contents
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Innovation in the Global Economy
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Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties
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Intellectual Property Rights and Wrongs
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UNCTAD TRIPS and Development Resource Book
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