Factsheet: Building Effective Patent Systems To Catalyze Local Innovation In Africa

This factsheet is based on the policy paper, Building Effective Patent Systems to Catalyze Local Innovation in Africa. This is the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa’s second publication by OSAA on Intellectual Property (IP) rights. The patent systems in Africa provide a potentially unique and important opportunity to promote local innovation. However, there is limited recognition and utilization of IP rights in general, and patents in particular, on the continent. The factsheet highlights eight key IP and other policy options that African policymakers and relevant stakeholders could pursue to address different challenges: 1) philosophical, 2) procedural, 3) substantive and 4) non-legal aspects of the patent systems on the continent.

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Policy Paper: Building Effective Patent Systems to Catalyze Local Innovation in Africa
Experts of the Africa Knowledge Network on Science, Technology and Innovation, including members of the Consultative Platform on Intellectual Property
Pre-recorded conversation with African experts on the ""

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