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This chapter is concerned with coordinating the immediate global response to future pandemics – on which there has been very little focus – as opposed to long-term arrangements on prevention and preparedness where recent efforts by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the Pandemic Fund seem to be moving in the right direction, even if a lot more needs to be done. This chapter does not purport to provide all the answers on global governance on pandemic response but attempts to at least raise the right questions that the international community needs to ask itself.
Understanding cross-border flows of knowledge, often associated with transactions involving intellectual property (IP), is essential to analysing how modern economies grow and evolve, and how international trade can underpin technological development. How to stimulate knowledge flows and make more effective, systematic use of them is an immediate practical concern for contemporary policymakers and analysts seeking to frame and implement policies for economic and technological development, that strengthen innovation systems and tap into indigenous creative and innovative capacity. Trade is understood to serve as a major conduit for the knowledge dissemination and technology spillovers that are essential for sustainable development today. And the IP system has been crafted and implemented ostensibly to facilitate both innovation and the dissemination of the fruits of innovation. Trade in knowledge as such – transactions specifically over the licensing or transfer of IP rights, for instance – has become a practical reality and a major source of dynamism and disruption. The complex and dynamic interaction between the IP system and international trade is therefore critical to our understanding of knowledge flows and their contribution to development.