Trade and Intellectual Property

It’s difficult to achieve innovation without the protection of ideas, and as a growing share of global economic value creation and exchange has become knowledge-based, intellectual property rights and protections have become an increasingly important facet of global trade. This category includes all GTIPA-member reports addressing trade and IP issues.

We Don’t Want to Die Poor: That's How Creatives Feel About Pending Copyright Changes

An impending move by the US to end some international trade preferences will inflict major damage on South Africa’s economy and creative industries, including publishing. Artists, writers and musicians stand to lose significant income if laws are changed, while Big Tech will be the big winner.

Geneva NetworkMon, 02/03/2020

Delinkage Debunked: Why Replacing Patents With Prizes for Drug Development Won't Work

Separating the cost of biopharmaceutical research and development from the final market price of medicines would misalign incentives, raise bureaucratic costs, and limit innovation.

Geneva NetworkMon, 02/03/2020

The importance of Intellectual Property Rights for progress: A reform agenda for ASEAN countries

Domestic manufacturing sectors within ASEAN member states, while increasingly diversified, are largely focused on the assembly of products designed and manufactured elsewhere. There is also too much reliance on the export of natural resources.

Institute for Democracy and Economic AffairsTue, 10/01/2019

Cybercrime trends in Colombia 2019-2020

In recent years cyber attacks in the world have left losses close to 12,000 million dollars, through the BEC modality or commitment of business accounts according to the FBI. In Colombia attacks grew 612% in 2018 and there are fears that trends in cyber crime suggest that increasing targets are AI firms and private data and property.

TicTacTue, 10/01/2019

Belt and Road Initiative and Its Effects on Intellectual Property: The Case of Italy

Italy's recent joining of China's Belt and Road Initiative has raised many questions, the one focused on in this report being how the variations in IP systems between the involved countries exposes investors to additional risks.

CompetereTue, 10/01/2019

Accelerating access to medicines: Policy recommendations for achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals

Improving access to quality healthcare remains a key area of action for the member states of the United Nations. As they gather in New York for the 74th UN General Assembly, focus is upon the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. This paper adds to this debate by providing international trade policy suggests that would enhance universal healthcare by reducing unnecessary medicine costs and accelerating access to medicine.

Geneva NetworkFri, 09/20/2019

Quantifying CUSMA: The Economic Consequences of the New North American Trade Regime

This study develops a quantitative analysis of the impact of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), as signed on 30 November 2018. The CUSMA represents a major overhaul of the now-dated 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and is based largely on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text, signed in 2016, from which the Trump administration withdrew in January 2017.

C.D. Howe Institute Thu, 07/25/2019

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