Utilization of IPR and Funding Problems

Stories about the difficulty of growing a new business based on the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) are not new.

The use of IPRs has been pursued for the last decade to promote the paradigm of human, science and technology-based development but there has been little progress. In fact, concerns about the need to protect small businesses and cooperatives – although with a slightly different concept of protection in accordance with the prevailing conditions of the time – were already around 40 years ago.