The workshop intents to be the starting point for an international network for capacity building in intellectual property, based on past links with professors, researchers and policy makers, in Brazil and abroad. Besides participating in the WIPO and INPI Academy, the network aims to develop alternative and independent research and teaching activities.
The workshop is part of the research project: Capacity Building in Intellectual Property - The Academies and the diversity of teaching matters. Click here to read the program
At the end of the first phase of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, created in 2000, member organizations of the United Nations, multilateral agencies, national governments, NGOs and public opinion as a whole engaged in a general appraisal not only of what has been achieved, but also of the specific goals and the framework adopted to eradicate poverty.
In 2005, numerous forums met to evaluate the results attained through the implementation of the MDG between 2000-2005, and to conduct a rigorous and critical assessment which would make it possible for the MDG. (...) Click here to read the program
A CLAS – MELLON –MINDS - FORD FOUNDATION WORKSHOP
May 4-6th 2006 Center for Latin American Studies UC Berkeley
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Contemporary process of globalization has generated important and urgent issues to be approached by academics as well as other agencies and actors of civil society. One of the fundamental dimensions of these approaches is the one related to the legitimacy of the wide spread notion that contemporary globalization means social and cultural homogenization. The core idea that defines this workshop is that beneath and beyond the epidermal interpretation provided by the notion of homogenization an extremely complex dynamics take place in the present process of globalization. (...) Click here to read the program
The ‘Development Agenda’ initiative recognizes that intellectual property is relevant to the process of building technological capacity, it also draws attention to the importance of public interest flexibilities provided for by the IP system itself and the role these flexibilities might play in fostering development-oriented policies. Although a globalized economy poses overwhelming challenges for policy-making, such as the tendency towards uniformity, it is important to bear in mind the serious disparities that continue to exist in the levels of human, economic and technological development among different States. Click here to read the program
The first Workshop related to our Project on Institutions, Organizations, Strategies and Development was concerned with the theme National Development Strategies, Institutions and Catching-up. It occurred in Rio de Janeiro from Monday afternoon March 21 to Tuesday morning, March 22, 2005.The idea of the Workshop was to discuss the main contours of a research agenda that is being developed during 2005 and 2006. Click here to read the program
