Crisis-Critical Intellectual Property: Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: A pandemic calls for large-scale action across national and international innovation systems in order to mobilize resources for developing and manufacturing crisis-critical products efficiently and in the huge quantities needed. Nowadays, these products also include a wide range of digital innovations. Given that many responses to the pandemic are technology driven, stakeholders involved in the development and manufacturing of crisis-critical products are likely to face intellectual property (IP)-related challenges. To (governmental) decision makers, IP challenges might not appear to be of paramount urgency compared to the many undoubtedly huge operational challenges to deploy critical resources. However, if IP challenges are considered too late, they may cause delays to urgently mobilize

SUBMITTER: Tietze F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328727 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature