TRIPS and Developing Countries
Towards a New IP World Order?
Edited by Gustavo Ghidini, Rudolph J.R. Peritz and Marco Ricolfi
Chapter 9: The illusion of the TRIPS Agreement to promote creativity and innovation in developing countries: Case study on Kenya
James Otieno Odek
Extract
International trade increasingly involves a diverse array of products in which ideas and knowledge play a part. The products range from high-technology products such as new medicines and computer processors, to creative material like films and music, to low-technology products such as brand names and designs. The 21st century has unveiled unparalleled growth in knowledge-based products with unique human resource didactic and pedagogy skills required for countries to be competitive in their trade relations. These trends observed in national economic growth have one thing in common: they are fuelled by the creativity and inventiveness of mankind. The seed and gem of these remarkable trends is the human intellect-the knowledge ensconced in the human mind-intellectual property (IP). IP law makes property out of knowledge. Any country that does not harness and improve its knowledge base to leverage its creativity and innovation for socio-economic development and trade relations will be left behind.
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