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Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology Original:   English 
  
 
WORKSHOP ON TRADE AND TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY 
 
Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology 
World Trade Organization 
(Geneva, December 2012) 
 
Draft Programme  
Proponents:  Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru 
  
 The following communication, dated 24 October 2012, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegations of Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru. 
 
 
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1. Technology transfer is a key term in the polic y debate on economic development issues.  The 
proposed workshop aims to help Members improve their understanding of what the process of technology transfer entails, how and between whic h kinds of actors such technology transfer can 
occur, and how the interface between technology tr ansfer and intellectual property rights can be 
structured. 
2. The workshop will present good practices in pr omoting knowledge-based development, IP 
protection, financing and practices on promoting innovative development.  It will also include 
discussion and experience-sharing about recent a pproaches on mechanisms and instruments of 
technology transfer such as global value chains (GVCs), non-equity modes of international production 
and the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs), in order 
to develop a deeper understanding of the developmen tal impact of these mechanisms and instruments, 
and the conditions under which they can be used to achieve long-term socio-economic gains.  In 
addition, it will focus on promoting the integrati on of firms from developing countries into GVCs and 
on avoiding the imposition of obstacles to the deve lopment and effective functioning of GVCs for 
protectionist reasons.  The workshop will also address the diffusion of international technology 
transfer collaborative programmes and the role  of the WTO, WIPO and other international 
organizations to enhance the global technological integration. 
Session 1:  Good Practices in Promoting Knowledge-Based Development 
 
- Creating enabling environment for the transfer of technology  
(host and home countries conditions) 
- IP standards to promote dynamic competition - Promoting Innovation in the Services Sector - Enhancing the Innovative Performance of Firms (UNECE) - EU Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP)  
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  Session 2: Financing and Promoting Innovative Development 
 
- IP Patent Boxes - Optimizing value in today’ s changing global market – KPMG Switzerland 
- IP Holding Companies - R&D Tax incentives 
- Association of University Industrial Liaison Officers, UK  
- The Asian experience 
 
Session 3:  Mechanisms and instruments of the Transfer of Technology 
 
- Global Value Chains as instruments of growth and development (OECD) 
- The Shifting Geography of Global Value Chai ns: Implications for Developing Countries and 
Trade Policy (WEF) 
- Supply Chain Connectivity Initiative and Industrial Technology Transfer (APEC) 
- Contribution of the Non-equity Modes of International Production in the Transfer of 
Technology (UNCTAD) 
- BITs, Taxation Treaties and RTAs and their impact on transfer of technology  - Non-Tariff Barriers to the Transfer of Technology - National experiences:  Korea, Malaysia, Costa Rica and others - Private sector experiences:  Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), 
firms from Asia, Latin America 
 Session 4:  International Technology Transfer Collaborative Programmes 
 
- Lausanne Group initiative on i nnovation and technology genera tion, École Polytechnique 
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 
- MISTI Programme of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
- National Research Council of Canada - Trade Facilitation for the transfer of technology - South-South Cooperation:  China, India, Brazil experiences - Technology as a public good 
 
Session 5:  What Role for International Organizations on Transfer of Technology? 
 
- The WTO and its agreements (provisions relate d to transfer of technology in the SPS, TBT, 
GATs;  Implementation of article 66. 2 of the TRIPS agreement; the WGTTT 
- WTO Made in the World Initiative 
- UNCTAD 
- WIPO activities in relation with technology transfer 
  
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