@article{26679,
      author = {Lidgard, Hans Henrik., and Tran-Wasescha, Thu-Lang.,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/26679},
      title = {Sustainable Technology Transfer : A Guide to Global Aid  and Trade Development},
      abstract = {There are more than eighty international agreements and  many additional programmes dealing with technology  transfer. Moreover, several international conventions  require that aid programs, both to address acute  emergencies and to assist in the longer-term building of  viable infrastructures, be undertaken in specific and  concrete ways. However, problems inevitably arise when good  intentions are put to the test, particularly in connection  with rights to the ownership of intellectual property  assets. Some even claim that it is only when IPRs are  respected that sustainable support can be expected. To  examine the existing status of international law in this  important area – and to offer recommendations for  potential improvements and solutions – the Faculty of Law  of Lund University hosted a conference in Vietnam in  October 2010 on the subject of sustainable technology  transfer from developed countries to developing countries.   Focusing on the legal problems which sustainable technology  transfer may give rise to and how they may be addressed –  and with emphasis on health, environment, energy, and  climate change – this book summarizes the most important  findings of that conference. Twelve penetrating essays by  fourteen distinguished European, American, and Asian legal  scholars address the questions of what is required to  satisfy existing international obligations and to what  extent developing countries may use flexibilities in  international conventions to advance their own development.   The essays are concerned with such issues and topics as  the following:  the major institutions and players in the  formulation and enforcement of rules affecting technology  transfer; the real-world value of legislative enactments in  the area; a factual account of actual technology transfers;  to what extent competition rules offer developing countries  a way to escape the more severe consequences of  undertakings they have accepted; the impact of compulsory  licensing; the potential effect of the Anti-Counterfeiting  Trade Agreement of 2010 (ACTA); and specific conditions  pertaining to conservation of biodiversity, climate change  and energy. Included are thorough analyses of the  obligations and flexibilities expressed in numerous  international conventions – including the TRIPS  Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the  UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – as well as  how these obligations and flexibilities function in  practice.},
      recid = {26679},
      pages = {xxx, 333 pages :},
}