Access to essential medicines: rationality and consensus in the conflict over intellectual property rights

Abstract: "This report summarizes deliberations over the Access to Essential Medicines held during a stakeholder dialogue process launched by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in 2001/2002. The dialogue process was designed to explore options of companies to address contested issues of intellectual property in their business strategies. To that end, companies were exposed to the concerns of stakeholders and urged to define responses to these concerns. The project involved major companies and transnational non-governmental organizations as well as renowned experts in the field of intellectual property rights. This paper briefly sketches the sociological dimensions of the project that relate to issues of rationality and governance. It then describes in detail the setup and the course of the dialogue process. Major steps in the process were provided through comprehensive surveys of argumentation which integrated all points raised in the deliberations and fed them ba

Object Details

• Alternative title: Zugang zu lebensnotwendigen Medikamenten: Rationalität und Konsens im Konflikt um das Recht auf intellektuelles Eigentum
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 96 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Zivilgesellschaft, Konflikte und Demokratie, Abteilung Zivilgesellschaft und transnationale Netzwerke ; Bd. 2003-108

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Arzneimittel ; Immaterialgüterrechte ; Stakeholder ; Welt ; Arzneimittel ; Immaterialgüterrecht ; Stakeholder

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2003
• Creator: Döbert, Rainer ; Daele, Wolfgang van den ; Seiler, Achim
• Contributor: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-112003
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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