Intellectual property tools must address African challenges: Tweya

Contributed by NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 17 JUL (NAMPA) – European tools on Intellectual Property (IP) must be domesticated so as to address African challenges, Minister of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development, Tjekero Tweya said on Monday.
“Do not be copycats, adjust the tools to fit the African agenda and don’t replace the local with the foreign,” Tweya said during the official opening of a five-day technical workshop on IP Windhoek.
The Namibian Government through the Ministry of Industrialisation, according to Tw ...