This volume examines intellectual property (IP) rights and sustainable development in Africa through case studies. It analyzes IP frameworks in agriculture, public health, innovation financing, and data protection, advocating for context-sensitive systems aligned with Africa's realities.
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.
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 Africas Intellectual Property Systems for Sustainable
Development
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 Academys 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.
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