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Innovation, Development, Creativity and Access to Knowledge

in Pacific Island Countries

Coombs Extension Building, 

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

24-25 September 2012

This two day conference is provisionally timetabled for September 2012. The intention is to bring together a range of participants across a number of disciplinary areas including: intellectual property law, international economic law, traditional knowledge and protection of genetic resources, anthropology, cultural heritage and policy, and development studies.

The Conference will focus on the challenges and opportunities for innovation, creativity and access to knowledge in the Pacific region, particularly in response to the new demands raised by globalization, climate change, the knowledge economy and intellectual property requirements in multilateral and bilateral trade agreements.

The focus will be on learning from experiences in the region to date by presenting case-studies about what works and what does not work and why. Conference participants will be asked to identify a range of strategies that can be used to promote innovation, creativity and access to knowledge, and highlight current cultural, institutional and regulatory obstacles to them.

We intend to bring a number of speakers from the Pacific Islands to present at the conference. It is possible to submit individual papers as well as panel proposals.

Provisional panel topics include:

• Community management of tangible and intangible resources: The challenges and opportunities
• Enforcement mechanisms for effective protection of intangible resources
• Harnessing customary innovation and resource management strategies
• The challenges of copyright laws for education in the PICs
• Strategies for securing food security in the PICs
• The potential of cultural industries for development
• Control over access to knowledge in the PICs
• Public health and private monopolies: strategies to maximise access to medicines
• IP in Free Trade Agreements
• IP and development
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It is envisaged that the proceedings of the conference will be published in a special journal issue or else as an edited volume (both peer-reviewed).

More information will be forthcoming soon, and please send any enquiries or expressions of interest to Miranda Forsyth at miranda.forsyth@anu.edu.au

Website :  http://www.ippacificislands.org/conf5.html

Email : miranda.forsyth@anu.edu.au