 Contradictions, frames and reproductions: The emergence of the WIPO Development AgendaValbona Muzaka Review of International Political Economy, 2013, vol. 20, issue 1, 215-239 Abstract: This article takes as its starting point the emergence of the so-called Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2004. It seeks to provide a diachronic view of the origins of the Agenda that goes beyond understanding it simply as an effort by some developing countries and civil society actors to bring about organisational change at WIPO. Building upon insights from sociological institutionalism, it argues that the Development Agenda is the manifestation of a founding contradiction in the institution of intellectual property itself, which has been the source of a great number of conflicts throughout its history. Actors involved in them have often used frames in an effort to legitimise their actions, such as the frame of development in the case of the Agenda. After exploring the development frame, the article concludes by arguing that the Agenda is likely to bring about only incremental changes, rather than transcend the tensions that helped bring it about. Date: 2013 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:20:y:2013:i:1:p:215-239 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2011.623111 Access Statistics for this article Review of International Political Economy is currently edited by Gregory Chin, Juliet Johnson, Daniel Mügge, Kevin Gallagher, Ilene Grabel and Cornelia Woll More articles in Review of International Political Economy from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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