Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-16002-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This volume provides a technical analysis of intellectual property (IP) rights in Africa, focusing on their intersection with sustainable development. Through case studies, it evaluates IP frameworks in agriculture, public health, innovation financing, and data protection, and so forth, emphasizing the need for context-sensitive systems tailored to Africa's unique challenges. The research highlights IP's contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including food security, SME empowerment, and gender equality. It addresses critical issues such as AI-generated content, traditional knowledge, and access to medicine, advocating for balanced IP protection that stimulates innovation while ensuring equitable development.

It features

- Explores the complex and evolving interface of IPRs and the sustainable development goals, especially SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12,16 and 17 from an African perspective.

- Includes chapters having diverse sectoral focus like creative industries, agriculture, finance, AI and so forth.

- Emphasizes need for localised IP frameworks, capacity development, and policy reform.

- Reiterates a nuanced and balanced IP system tailored to Africa’s socio-economic realities.

- Draws upon case studies from Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Morocco, Tanzania, Egypt Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Gambia, Ghana, ARIPO and OAPI

This book is aimed at academics, researchers, legal practitioners and formulators within the innovation, IP and sustainable development context.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oriakhogba, Desmond Osaretin

Musiza, Charlene Tsitsi

Mba-Kalu, Sand

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz allg., Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Intricate Nexus between Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development in Africa 2. Geographical Indications and Sustainable Development in Africa 3. Geographical Indications Driving Sustainable Development Goals 5, 12 & 16 in Africa 4. Harnessing Plant Variety Protection towards Food Sovereignty for Sustainable Agriculture 5. Patent Regimes and Public Health 6.Unlocking Innovation 7. Public Domain Patents and Innovation in Africa 8. Promoting Innovation from University Through IP And Research Commercialization Capacity Enhancement  9. Intellectual Property-Based Financing for Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 9 in Nigeria 10. Securitization of Intellectual Property as a Means of Financing Innovations and Creativity in Tanzania 11. The Synergy of Data Protection and Intellectual Property Rights 12. Strengthening the Intellectual Property Framework for Sustainable Development in Africa 13. Critic of the Legal Framework for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge in Nigeria 14. Intellectual Property as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development in Africa 15. AI Generated Works and African Copyright Law 16. Bridging the gap 17. Promoting Small Businesses in Africa Through Intellectual Property Rights Commercialization 18. Criminal Enforcement of Trademark Counterfeiting  19. Strategic Reform of Africa’s Intellectual Property Systems for Sustainable Development

Über Autor(innen)

Desmond Oriakhogba is Associate Professor, Department of Private Law, University of the Western Cape; Adjunct Professor at Strathmore Law School, Strathmore University, Kenya; and Head Tutor: WIPO Academy’s distance learning program (advanced course on IP and traditional knowledge). He earned his PhD from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and LLM and LLB from University of Benin.

Charlene Tsitsi Musiza is Postdoctoral Research Fellow,Commercial Law Department, University of Cape Town. She obtained her PhD and LLM from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and LLB from the University of Zimbabwe. She is a Queen Elizabeth Scholar – Advanced Scholar (QES-AS) and New and Emerging Researcher (OpenAIR).

Sand Mba-Kalu is Founder of the International Trade & Research Centre (ITRC) and an International Trade Expert. He serves as Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the All Africa Intellectual Property Summit and has extensive expertise in Business Development, Consultancy, Research, and Policy design across Africa. Currently a PhD student at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Sand's research focuses on Policy development and practice.