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Intellectual Property and Development Task Force Meeting, Santiago, 2005

An important part of success in development and attaining milestones such as the Millennium Development Goals depends on closing the knowledge, technology, and healthcare gaps between rich and poor countries. The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) is helping to define what a development agenda for intellectual property might look like. Given its impacts on healthcare, access to drugs, and technology, intellectual property policy will impact the development of all countries.
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The minimum standards set by the TRIPS agreement; the principle of special and differential treatment at the multilateral level; the impact of bilateral negotiations on developing countries’ policy; TRIPS plus provisions; the public policy implications of the pharmaceutical and IT industries; and initiatives like the proposal presented by Argentina and Brazil on the establishment of a new development agenda within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) are only some of the controversial issues at the center of international debate on intellectual property.There is a need to create a pragmatic and non-ideological discussion and literature on Intellectual Property.

To meet this need, the IPD Task Force on Intellectual Property and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean have organized a two-day meeting and round table discussion on intellectual property and development. International experts, academics and policymakers will convene to marshal what history, theory, evidence and solid policy analyses show in terms of intellectual property management and development patterns.

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Participants:

  • Mario Cimoli
    Task Force Chair
    Professor of Economics
    Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
  • Benjamin Coriat
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics
    Universite de Paris 13
  • Alvaro Diaz
    Task Force Member
    Regional Adviser, Brazil
    United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-UN)
  • Giovanni Dosi
    Task Force Chair
    Professor of Economics
    Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa
  • James Love
    Task Force Member
    Director
    Knowledge Ecology International
  • Keith Maskus
    Task Force Member
    Professor and Department Chair
    University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Andrew Mclaughlin
    Task Force Member
    Deputy Chief Technology Officer
    Administration of President Barack Obama
  • Andres Moncayo
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    University de Buenos Aires
  • Sisule Musungu
    Task Force Member
    Team Leader, Programme on International Trade & Development
    South Centre
  • Luigi Orsenigo
    Task Force Member
    Professor, Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies
    Bocconi University
  • Carlos Pacheco
    Task Force Member
    UNI Campinas
    University of Cantina
  • Jerome Reichman
    Task Force Chair
    Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law
    Duke Law School
  • Sanya Reid Smith
    Task Force Member
    Third World Network
  • Pedro Roffe
    Task Force Member
    Director
    ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development
  • Sherif Saadallah
    Task Force Member
    Executive Director, Economic Development Bureau for Arab Countries
    World Intellectual Property Organization
  • Suzanne Scotchmer
    Task Force Chair
    Professor of Economics and Public Policy
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Luis Villarroel
    Task Force Member
    Copyright Legal Adviser
    Ministry of Education of Chile
  • Suwit Wibulpolprasert
    Task Force Member
    Senior Advisor on Health Economics
    Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
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