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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation : Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (Aria VIII)
Ncube, Caroline B. - 2017
To assist trade policymakers in the development of a framework, this paper explores IP issues, perspectives, and priorities related to both the CFTA and PAIPO. It suggests that process and substance issues are each important to create fair and balanced IP systems on the continent that stimulate...
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Current Realities of Collaborative Intellectual Property in Africa
de Beer, Jeremy; Armstrong, Chris; Oguamanam, Chidi; … - 2015
innovation and creativity in Africa, and guidance towards IP policy and management possibilities. Section 2 of this publication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133253
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Frameworks for Analysing African Innovation : Entrepreneurship, the Informal Economy and Intellectual Property
de Beer, Jeremy; Sowa, Izabella; Holman, Kristen - 2015
This chapter reviews conceptual frameworks to understand and measure innovation, and then outlines links between innovation and the concepts of entrepreneurship, the informal economy (IE) and intellectual property (IP). The review suggests that the time is ripe for African policy-makers to seek...
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Innovation, Intellectual Property and Development Narratives in Africa
de Beer, Jeremy - 2015
contexts in Africa is the subject of this book.This chapter canvasses aspects of the current reality of IP in the four main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015556
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Mapping the Outcomes of Multidisciplinary Intellectual Property Research : Lessons from the African Copyright Experience
de Beer, Jeremy - 2015
Multidisciplinary intellectual property research often involves large-scale collaborative projects. Such projects combine not just multiple research frameworks, methods, and perspectives, but also multiple individuals, institutions, and sources of funding. Demonstrating the results of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015558
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Determinants of property rights protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2016
emphasis on history, geography and institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 47 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548650
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Changing the Face of Sustainable Development in Africa : The Role of the International Finance Corporation
Adeyemi, Adebola - 2018
Different regulatory instruments have sought to promote sustainable development, most especially, the integration of social and economic concerns in development activities. Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have taken it upon themselves to promote sustainable development practices by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919570
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Plant Breeders’ Rights, Farmers’ Rights and Food Security : Africa’s Failure of Resolve and India’s Wobbly Leadership
Oguamanam, Chidi - 2018
food security in the developing world, including Africa and India, thereby further enhancing the idea of farmers' rights in …Since 2000s, Africa and India severally rejected the notion that UPOV's 1991 standard of Plant Breeders Rights (PBRs …. Consequently, under the African Union's (AU) auspices, Africa proposed the Model Law for the Protection of the Rights of Local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920034
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Reverse Contributors? African State Parties, ICSID, and the Development of International Investment Law
Akinkugbe, Olabisi D. - 2020
International investment disputes involving African states before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) have generated significant critical inquiry. Yet, accounts of their contribution to the development of international investment law as a result of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849850
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A Cross-Regional Research Partnership for Sustainable Development : The Open African Innovation Research (Open Air) Experience
Oguamanam, Chidi; de Beer, Jeremy - 2017
, including its core driving factors relevant to the development gap associated with IP and knowledge governance in Africa. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120386