Intellectual property's role in eliminating poverty: SDG 1

J. Janewa Osei-Tutu

Chapter 1 in The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2024, pp 37-49 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter discusses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, eliminating poverty in all its forms everywhere. It argues that intellectual property can play a meaningful role in eliminating poverty, but that this requires the international intellectual property system to shift to a greater focus on human development. The chapter offers two examples of how international intellectual property can center human development. The first suggestion is to expand the international intellectual property system to include protection for traditional and Indigenous knowledge, and the second proposal is to adopt some modest reforms to the current system to make intellectual property law more inclusive.

Keywords: Development Studies; Law - Academic; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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