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The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals
Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs.
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Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs.
This comprehensive Companion brings together an array of leading international experts to assess and interrogate how IP law impacts each specific SDG in turn. Providing in-depth analysis and invaluable insight, chapters explore IP’s role in ending poverty and inequality, improving food security, ensuring a sustainable environment, better regulating gene patents, and supporting health and well-being through access to medicines. This Companion deftly explores a variety of models of technology transfer and diffusion. Ultimately, the book provides a realistic overview of current progress towards the SDGs and a blueprint to reform IP institutions, agreements, and laws to achieve a more sustainable future.
The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, regulators and policymakers interested in the unique intersection between IP law and sustainable development. It will also prove a highly informative read for researchers specialising in development studies, as well as legal practitioners working in private law, technology law, comparative law and international law.
This comprehensive Companion brings together an array of leading international experts to assess and interrogate how IP law impacts each specific SDG in turn. Providing in-depth analysis and invaluable insight, chapters explore IP’s role in ending poverty and inequality, improving food security, ensuring a sustainable environment, better regulating gene patents, and supporting health and well-being through access to medicines. This Companion deftly explores a variety of models of technology transfer and diffusion. Ultimately, the book provides a realistic overview of current progress towards the SDGs and a blueprint to reform IP institutions, agreements, and laws to achieve a more sustainable future.
The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals will be an essential resource for academics, researchers, regulators and policymakers interested in the unique intersection between IP law and sustainable development. It will also prove a highly informative read for researchers specialising in development studies, as well as legal practitioners working in private law, technology law, comparative law and international law.
Critical Acclaim
‘Our common future depends urgently on prioritizing community well-being over destructive rent-seeking. Addressing this enormous challenge, this book dares us to re-align intellectual property’s purposes with each of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, hopefully to maximize the flourishing of the broadest array of living beings—and indeed of Earth itself.’
– Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law, US
‘The Sustainable Development Goals have become a key framework to assess the impact of national policies and international regimes. This book fills an important gap and is unique in assessing, with original research by leading scholars, intellectual property in the context of such Goals. Not only academics but policy makers will benefit from reading this book.’
– Carlos Correa, The South Centre, Switzerland
– Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law, US
‘The Sustainable Development Goals have become a key framework to assess the impact of national policies and international regimes. This book fills an important gap and is unique in assessing, with original research by leading scholars, intellectual property in the context of such Goals. Not only academics but policy makers will benefit from reading this book.’
– Carlos Correa, The South Centre, Switzerland
Contributors
Contributors include: Muhammad Zaheer Abbas, Titilayo Adebola, Bita Amani, Chelsea Bodimeade, Gabriele Cifrodelli, Jorge L. Contreras, Carys J. Craig, Felicity Deane, Artha Dermawan, Paul Harpur, Md. Saiful Karim, Guido Noto La Diega, Jessica C. Lai, Simon Lumsden, Faith O. Majekolagbe, S. Ali Malik, Christine Milne, Caroline B Ncube, Lonias Ndlovu, Emmanuel Kolawole Oke, Desmond Oriakhogba, J. Janewa Osei-Tutu, Taina Pihlajarinne, Miri (Margaret) Raven, Matthew Rimmer, Daniel F Robinson, Sharon K. Sandeen, Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Michael Ashley Stein, Myra Tawfik, Natasha Tusikov, Md. Mahatab Uddin, Marcia Valiante, Peter K. Yu
