South Innovation Perspectives Series Seminars
The seminar series, presented by the South Centre on a quarterly basis, aims to provide a forum where cutting-edge research and ideas on innovation, access to knowledge and intellectual property, from a development perspective, are presented and debated. Speakers are researchers and policy analysts especially from the South who focus their work on key issues for developing countries and the international community more generally.
By presenting key research findings and ideas in Geneva, the seminar series plays an important role in linking local/national circumstances and challenges, and the norm-setting activities in various international institutions and process. By engaging negotiators and key players in international processes, the seminars will also contribute to promoting evidence-based norm-setting in key institutions such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), among other organisations and processes.
Upcoming Seminar
5 December 2007
Seminar Announcement: The Fifth South Innovation Perspectives Series
“The Implementation Game: Developing Countries, the TRIPS Agreement and the Global Politics of Intellectual Property" by Dr. Carolyn Deere, Director, Global Trade Governance Project, Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford, UK
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Past Seminars
24 October 2007
Seminar Announcement: The Fourth South Innovation Perspectives Series
Making Patent Policy Work for Development: Lessons from the SWISS by Dr. Nikolaus Thumm, Senior Economic Counsellor, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Berne
9 May 2007
Seminar Announcement: The Third South Innovation Perspectives Series
The Use of Flexibilities in TRIPS for Biotechnology Innovations - Research Exemption & Antitrust Law by Sufian Jusoh (Mr.)
14 December 2006
How to make Traditional Knowledge Innovation Chain Work? Theoretical Consideration, Field Survey & Proposals
by Xuan LI (Research Fellow, World Trade Institute, Switzerland)
4 September 2006
Linking Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development: Some Evidence from the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
by Dr. Padmashree Gehl Sampath (UNU-MERIT)
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