Trade in Knowledge
Author: Antony Taubman
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781108780919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is now more than 25 years since the WTO TRIPS Agreement entered into force, setting intellectual property (IP) standards at the centre of multilateral trade rules. The quarter-century since then has seen a fundamental transformation in the scale, diversity, and very nature of cross-border commercial transactions in knowledge and knowledge products. An array of technological, economic, social and policy factors has driven this transformation and diversification. The disruptive impact of technological change - the prospects that it brings for sustainable development and for a more equitable world, along with concerns about its potential to displace and disenfranchise, and to entrench inequities - has placed it at the centre of policy debates and practical initiatives about economic and social development, and indeed a host of wider public policy issues today. The framing of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 - a blueprint for international cooperation and national action towards an ambitious set of targets in 2030 - was striking for the high degree of recognition of the need for the development and implementation of new technologies to address fundamental development needs. Innovation, as such, was recognized as a development goal in itself"--