19/05/2026
✅At Eclac, authorities and specialists analyzed how to harness intellectual property to foster productive transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
📘During the event, held in 🇨🇱, and European Patent Office presented the joint study "Harnessing intellectual property for development: Opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean", which offers new evidence on the relationship between the protection of intellectual property and economic activity in nine of the region’s countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
“Latin American and the Caribbean needs the discussion on intellectual property to mature and align more with other productive development policies; one that focuses less on intellectual property as a tool in isolation and more on the ecosystem in which it operates. Intellectual property can contribute to development, but it will do so more effectively when it forms part of comprehensive productive development policies aimed at closing technological gaps, strengthening domestic capacities and improving the region’s position in higher value-added activities,” said José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
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