managing ip in knowledge-based development
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Managing IP in Knowledge-based Development International cooperation to improve framework conditions in catching-up economies Ralph Heinrich UNECE Team of Specialists on Intellectual Property Skopje, 1 April 2009. The UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Managing IP in
Knowledge-based Development
International cooperation to improve framework conditions in catching-up
economies
Ralph Heinrich
UNECE Team of Specialists on Intellectual Property
Skopje, 1 April 2009
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The UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
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The UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
• 56 member countries
• home to 20 percent of the world’s population
• including most of the developed economies,
• but also emerging market economies and
• a few low income countries
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What UNECE does
helps to implement global UN initiatives at the regional level
fosters sustainable development & economic cooperation in its region
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What UNECE does
fosters sustainable development & economic cooperation in its region by …
• providing a multilateral forum for policy discussion and negotiations
• brokering and administrating international standards and conventions
• engaging in capacity building and technical cooperation
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UNECE’s main areas of activity
• Trans-border environmental issues• Border-crossing transport issues• Facilitation of international trade• Trans-border energy issues• International harmonization of statistics and
• Economic Cooperation and Integration
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Committee on
Economic Cooperation and Integration (CECI)
Established in 2006 to promote “… a policy, financial and regulatory environment
conducive to • economic growth, • innovative development • and higher competitiveness focusing mainly on countries with economies in
transition”
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CECI - main areas of work
promoting
• innovation and competitiveness
• public-private partnerships
• entrepreneurship
• Financing Innovation and
• Intellectual Property Rights
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The Team of Specialists on Intellectual Property (TOS-IP)
• provides a forum for the exchange of experiences
• collects/ disseminates good practices and policy recommendations
• engages in capacity building and policy advice at national & sub-regional level
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… through
• its network of experts representing– government ministries and agencies– the business community – international organizations and– academic institutions
• and its inter-governmental process
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TOS-IP
• constituted in Nov 06
• currently ~ 120 experts
• from ~35 countries
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TOS-IP’s mandate
helps to …• “build up national innovation systems • commercialize intellectual property• improve the investment environment in
creative, innovative and high technology industries …
• among others through effective enforcement of intellectual property rights”
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ToS-IPs mandate
Hence commercialization & enforcem’t as 2 sides of 1 coin
• w/o enforcem’t, IPRs have no commercial value
• w/o commercialization, no incentive to enforce
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Economic Role of IPRs
Well-designed IPRs:
Provide incentives for innovationUnderpin markets for intellectual assetsEncourage disclosure & diffusion of
knowledge
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The International Dimension
• Innovation THE key driver of economic growth
• reduced costs of creating & transmitting knowledge …
• … including across borders
faster innovation & closer economic integration
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Innovation, Integration & Economic Development
• globalization of int’l supply chains & production networks
• … and increasingly internationalization of R&D
• increasing knowledge flows across borders
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Innovation, Integration & Economic Development
Increasing knowledge flows across borders
increasing need to manage, protect & enforce IPRs
across borders
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Channels of Int’l Knowledge Flows
• Int’l trade
• Foreign direct investment
• X-border licensing
• Research cooperations
• People
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Int’l IPR Enforcement
• IPRs are national, yet
• the goods & services they underpin are increasingly produced & sold internationally
• w/ growing int’l trade, trade in counterfeits & pirated goods is increasing
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Int’l IPR Enforcement
Weak IPR enforcement can compromise economic development by undermining channels of knowledge transfer:
Lower-tech FDI and lower-tech outsourcing Less FDI & outsourcing (protecting supply chains) Weakening links b/w foreign & domestic firms Less R&D cooperation
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Int’l IPR Enforcement
• Counterfeiting & piracy organized internat’lly
• Fakes shipped across many borders
• Increasing importance of internet
Need for int’l cooperation
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Int’l IPR Commercialization
• To achieve “critical mass”, all actors in the commercialization process will have to increasingly think internationally
• Universities => research cooperations, staff• Firms => sourcing of R&D, licensing,
cooperations• Investors
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Int’l IPR Commercialization
• Need for int’l IPR management strategies
• Need for advisory & consultancy services w/ int’l perspective
• Need for contracts across jurisdictions
• Need for harmonization to reduce costs
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Summary
• Globalization & accelerating innovationCatching-up economies need to integrate
into global production networks & to strengthen innovative capacity
Hence need to manage & enforce IPRs across borders
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Upcoming UNECE Activities
• Astana 21-22 May: Financing Innovative Enterprises
• Geneva 28-29 Sept: Innovation-based Entrepreneurial Opportunities
• Bishkek Oct/Nov: Knowledge-based Development
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Some CECI Publications on Knowledge-based Development
www.unece.org/ceci/
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Thank You!
• http://www.unece.org/ceci/Welcome.html
• mailto: [email protected]
• phone: +41 22 917 1269