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58. See Ubieta Gomez (2008).
59. See www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000042/004293.htm.
60. See www.allbusiness.com/north-america/canada/563087-1.html.
61. See www.inforse.dk/s_e_news_art.php3?id=149.
62. The Colombian science and innovation agency Colciencias and the Instituto de Capacitation e
Investigacion del Plastico y el Caucho launched the network (SECOPI Energy) in the framework of the
Colombian National Policy for R&D and Innovation Promotion that was adopted by the government in
2008. See www.colciencias.gov.co/portalcol/downloads/archivosContenido/762.pdf.
63. See www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2007/article_0068.html.
64. See www.a-star.edu.sg/a_star/25-Exploit-Technologies.
65. See Kuji (2009).
66. See WIPO (2006).
67. This discount is already available for filings by small businesses and research institutions from anywhere
in the world filing in the USA. 35 United States Codes (USC) §41(h)(1).
68. See Cannady (2004).
69. See the revised negotiating text from the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action
(AWG-LCA) at its sixth session, FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/INF.1, 22 June 2009. http//:unfccc.int/resource/
docs/2009/awglca6/eng/inf01.pdf.
70. Part 195 refers to a global database or “clearing house” on green production technologies. There is a
mass of information on green production on the Internet in various forms. The challenge is in getting
capital to implement and further develop these processes in developing countries.
71. See Ellison (1953).
72. Part 186 even refers to strengthening developed country climate change research. Then it refers
to the importance of south–south and north–south collaboration. But the predicate for such deals is
strengthening developing country research by massive funding and prioritizing.
73. Part 194 concerns a “technology information platform” and once again elevates patent information to
a goal. This already exists in multiple forms and recreating it in a new form will only create jobs and
revenues in developed countries as consultants prepare expensive IT projects and advance IT and digital
rights management (DRM) platforms.
74. For example, Part 181 refers to a “Technology Action Plan”. This can and probably should be done
on a national and regional, not international, level. This is essentially a national innovation strategy.
The recommendation could be that countries conduct an innovation or IP audit, write strategies
with the express goal of national innovation and increasing opportunities for win–win international
collaborations, and then get support from the United Nations (UN) and donors to complement their
plans. An international plan cannot be meaningful because each country is different and climate change
technology cannot be distributed on this kind of bureaucratic basis.