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.

Mandating Cheap Drug Access Will Only Make It More Difficult to Help the World's Poor

MLI writes that the United Nations High-Level Report on Access to Medicines, which calls for loosening intellectual property regulations (ostensibly to make drugs cheaper) would only make it more difficult to provide drug access to the world's most impoverished.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Mon, 09/19/2016

IP and Innovation Crucial for India to Fulfill Biotech Potential

An innovative diabetes treatment from an Indian biotech company is set to
Geneva NetworkMon, 08/01/2016

How to Really Support Canadian Culture: Heritage and the Copyright Brief

This MLI study explores the many copyright issues facing the Canadian Heritage minister, and shows that supporting Canada’s artists, musicians and authors is about more than government programs and subsidies.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Fri, 07/01/2016

Intellectual Property as Driver for Mexico’s Competitiveness

Fundación IDEA writes about the importance of intellectual property as a driver of innovation and competitiveness in Mexico.

Fundación Idea Tue, 05/03/2016

SEANET Perspective No 8 – A macro analysis of intellectual property rights in ASEAN context

Intellectual property protection has a positive effect on all four economic

Institute for Democracy and Economic AffairsFri, 04/01/2016

Legal and Policy Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Focus on Intellectual Property

As the Philippines participates in negotiations for new-generation free tra

The Philippine Institute for Development StudiesFri, 01/01/2016

Capturing Value from IP in a Global Environment

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The Center for Global EnterpriseThu, 08/27/2015

The Imperative of Protecting Life Sciences Innovation In the TPP

To ensure the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement creates a framework in which life sciences innovation flourishes throughout the TPP region, it needs to include 12 years of data protection for novel biologic drugs.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationWed, 03/04/2015

Improving the Tax Treatment of Intellectual Property Income in Canada

Canada should consider adopting an “Innovation Box” approach to encourage business investment in innovative processes that improve productivity, growth, and incomes.

C.D. Howe Institute Thu, 04/25/2013

Can Aid Work? Thinking about Development Strategy

The paper describes how to make Canadian foreign aid policy more effective.

C.D. Howe Institute Sat, 04/01/2006

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