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Multi-stakeholder expert workshop for validating the IP model agreements for pre-competitive accessDecember 11th, 2014
This report gives the context and key outcomes of a two-day Micro B3 multi-stakeholder workshop which considered the interface of open access-based data-management, access and benefit-sharing (ABS) under the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the promotion of pre-competitive scientific research. During the workshop ABS policy-makers, representatives from research funding agencies and the scientific community discussed amongst others issues of data tracking and traceability; advantages and disadvantages of different public domain approaches; incentives and disincentives for data-sharing as well as necessary institutional infrastructures; or the idea of a potential exhaustion of benefit-sharing rights of provider states. The following workshop report presents a detailed discussion of these findings. It also indicates that ABS implementation in practice does not only pose great challenges for the scientific community, but also provides an opportunity to f
