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Intellectual Property, Climate Change And Development, Dalindyebo Shabalala
Intellectual Property, Climate Change And Development, Dalindyebo Shabalala
School of Law Faculty Publications
Since the wave of independence that swept former European colonies in the middle to late twentieth century, access to technology and knowledge has been at the core of demands for restitution and aid by developing countries. The demands found their strongest expression in the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO) 1974 which sought, among other things:
“Giving to the developing countries access to the achievements of modern science and technology, and promoting the transfer of technology and the creation of indigenous technology for the benefit of the developing countries in forms and in accordance with …