Trade Is War: The West's War Against the World by Yash Tandon

Author:Yash Tandon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: POL047000; POL024000; POL010000
ISBN: e9781939293824
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2014-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

The Myth of IP as Essential for Innovation and Development

So I am not taken in by the myth created by Western hegemonic ideologues about the necessity of ‘intellectual property’ for innovation and development. There is not the slightest evidence of this. In fact, IP regimes are major obstacles to the development of science and industry—especially in the South. The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology (IAASTD)’s report—a work of four hundred scientific experts—criticised the present trade and IP regimes as favouring the rich countries at the cost of the poor. It said that IP as applied to the protection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has affected public research and farmers’ rights to seeds.59 Also, the World Health Organisation’s Consultative Expert Working Group (CEWG) on Research and Development issued a report along similar lines on the issue of research and development (R&D) on health and medicines.60 In its report, the CEWG recommended open approaches to R&D and innovation and the adoption of a binding convention that guarantees that the results of R&D will be a public good, i.e., not subject to appropriation but free for use, to generate medicines needed particularly in developing countries.

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