Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries

A/RES/2091(XX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1966.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Industrial Property Information Transfer Know-How Patents Scientific and Technical Information Technology Transfer

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Endorses the rccommen<lations cont;iined in annex A.IV.26 of the Fiml Act of the United N;itions Conference on Tr;i<le and Development ;in<l in Economic ancl Social Council resol11tion 1013 (XXXVTT):

Welcomes the initiative taken hy the Advisory Committee on the Applic-ation of Science and Teclinology to Development in including in its work programme the suhiect "Arrangements between enterprises ( public and private) for the transfer of patented and unpatented technology" :

Requests the Serretary-General, keeping in mind the work of the Advisory Committee on the Applic;ition of Science and Technology to Development. the Committee for Tnd11strial Development. the Committee on Invisibles and Financing related to Trade of the Trade and Development Board, and in consultation with interested regional and international organizations. to contintte his studies of:

The adequacy of existing national and intermtional practices for the transfer of patented and unpatented technology to developing countries and the possible development of improver] practices. inclttding model clauses:

( b) National and international action and instittttional arrangements, including the systematic collection and dissemination of scientific and technological data and materials, so as to promote the expeditious and effective transfer of technology, especi;illv from private

ST See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, vol. I, Final Act and Report (United Nations publication, Sales No.: 64.II.B.11), p. 57.

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a~d public ~ndustr~al enterprises in the developed countnes, . to mdustnal enterprises in the developing countnes;

( c) The problems encountered, especially by developing countries, in obtaining technical know-how;

Other measures for specific technical and financi;il as<:istance to developing countries in their efforts to secure an increased inflow of technological and managerial know-how and to adapt it to their individual needs;

Requests that the competent international bodies. inclttding United Nations bodies and the Burcmt of the International Union for the Protection of Indttstri;il Property, give particular attention to requests from Governments of developing countries for technic;il assistance in the field of indttstrial property legishtion and administration ;

Further requests the Secretary-GePernl to take the necess;iry steps in order to ensure effective coordination and co-operation in the work to he undertaken by the United Nations bodies and other international organizations referred to above for the purpose of implementing the tasks outlined in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the present resolution;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council at its forty-second session and to other rompetent lTnited Nations ho<lies at their 1967 sessions a progress report on the activitif's assigned to him unrlPr paragraphs 3 and 4 ahovP.

140-1 th plenary meetiny,

20 DecembM 1965.

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