This chapter considers a number of key chapters of the TPP relating to access to genetic resources, informed consent and benefit-sharing. Part 2 looks at the TPP chapter on Intellectual Property and focuses on access to genetic resources, informed consent and benefit-sharing. In particular, this...

The conclusion considers whether various forms of intellectual property help or hinder the realization of the seventeen SDGs as a composite – and individually. The conclusion asks how the framing of the question of IPRs and SDGs may implicitly reinforce power relations through institutional...

This book is a thorough examination of how intellectual property (IP) interfaces with each of the seventeen sustainable development goals, which, in turn, seek to secure a sustainable social, economic and environmental future for humanity. Each chapter explains the relevant area of IP law and...

This chapter explores the relationship between intellectual property and sustainable development in the context of the public health efforts to address the global tobacco epidemic. It provides an account of the role of Gro Harlem Brundtland in both shaping the discourse of sustainable...

This chapter considers the role of open innovation makerspaces in the construction of prosthetics in light of the broader ambition of promoting sustainable development – particularly in respect of health-care. In terms of its methodology, this project has relied upon qualitative interviews...

A number of Nobel Laureates in economics have been grappling with the problem of research, development, and transfer of clean technologies in order to tackle the climate crisis. Joseph Stiglitz has been investigating how intellectual property laws could be recalibrated and redesigned to better...

This Chapter considers the long-standing debate over intellectual property and sustainable development in the context of the coronavirus public health crisis. It provides a historical overview of the past phases of the debate in relation to intellectual property and sustainable development.This...

The United Nations Rio 20 summit has raised a number of difficult questions about law, culture and technology: what is the relationship between intellectual property, the environment and climate change? What role does intellectual property play in sustainable development? Who will own and...