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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
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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
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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”12
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 innovation
Underpin markets for intellectual assets
Encourage 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
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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
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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 innovation
Catching-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
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