The B20 task force is a group of CEOs who represent the world’s most innovative companies and want a ‘world of creators’ to emerge from their recommendations at September’s G20 summit.
In his book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, Chris Anderson, ex-editor
of Wired and the author of influential book The Long Tail, talks of a future
where 3D printing means we will all become makers of our own products.
While Anderson’s vision is simplistic and alluring, it adds to the trend of
believing everybody is an entrepreneur and that we can all create our digital
and physical worlds through 3D printers and the internet.
The reality is that if different countries have different rules on IP and
Information and Communications Technology (ICT), as well as energy sufficiency,
then some makers will be more equal than others.
The B20 task force on Innovation and Development hopes to address this by a
number of initiatives. The group comprises 39 participants of the Innovation and
Development as a Global Priority Task Force that represents CEOs from G20
countries.
Next week it will deliver a report in Saint Petersburg as part of the roadmap
to the G20 Summit in September that it wants to adopt its recommendations of a
connected world of not only makers, but connected creators.
"Our task force members are working on a plan of action that will not only
correspond with the interests of all countries, but will also bridge the gap
between developed and developing nations," said Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman of
the B20 Taskforce (Innovation and Development as a Global Priority).
"This is not just the simple redistribution of resources, but also the creation on a global scale of conditions for effective growth in emerging economies through permanent innovation.
“We are proposing ways to transition to a more efficient model of global innovation involving as many countries and entrepreneurial communities as possible. That’s why the key recommendations in our package address innovation development – the transformation of the IP regime and the creation of a global legal framework to improve global competition in innovation markets”, he said.
The report wants to set a G20 agenda by not only giving universal internet access, but also improving the global IP regime that will balance innovation and development with the ecosystem of societal and business interests.
The B20 says that this will foster faster and more efficient technology transfer and, if adopted by G20 leaders, will stimulate economic growth and create jobs through technological collaboration between developed and developing countries.
It also suggests that such a global IP regime will "make markets freer and less pliant to counterproductive distortions through harmonisation and stabilisation of regulation and reduction of barriers for economic co-operation, including non-tariff borders".
While that type of gobbledegook language is always difficult to understand, but standard for this type of report, the aspiration is noble and important. By and large in developed countries, if entrepreneurs come up with a good idea, they can then take that idea to market relatively quickly and without bureaucratic impediment.
For other countries, it isn’t straightforward. A 24-nation report* last month from the BBC World Service reported that while countries such as Indonesia, the US, India and Australia are the most entrepreneur-friendly, other countries such as Italy, Turkey and Russia make things very difficult for ‘creators’.
A global IP regime would not only enable entrepreneurs in every country to work on the ‘level playing field’ so favoured by cliche-makers, it would also prevent the one-sided brain drain from developing to developed countries that offer more transparent and open opportunities.
The G20 is under no obligation to adopt the B20’s recommendations in September, but a world where ideas are equal and where everybody from Brindisi to Novosibirsk to Abuja and own these ideas and take them to market has to be a good thing... and one that Chris Anderson would undoubtedly endorse.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10127201/Analysis-G20-plans-for-a-global-IP-regime-and-universal-internet-access.html
"This is not just the simple redistribution of resources, but also the creation on a global scale of conditions for effective growth in emerging economies through permanent innovation.
“We are proposing ways to transition to a more efficient model of global innovation involving as many countries and entrepreneurial communities as possible. That’s why the key recommendations in our package address innovation development – the transformation of the IP regime and the creation of a global legal framework to improve global competition in innovation markets”, he said.
The report wants to set a G20 agenda by not only giving universal internet access, but also improving the global IP regime that will balance innovation and development with the ecosystem of societal and business interests.
The B20 says that this will foster faster and more efficient technology transfer and, if adopted by G20 leaders, will stimulate economic growth and create jobs through technological collaboration between developed and developing countries.
It also suggests that such a global IP regime will "make markets freer and less pliant to counterproductive distortions through harmonisation and stabilisation of regulation and reduction of barriers for economic co-operation, including non-tariff borders".
While that type of gobbledegook language is always difficult to understand, but standard for this type of report, the aspiration is noble and important. By and large in developed countries, if entrepreneurs come up with a good idea, they can then take that idea to market relatively quickly and without bureaucratic impediment.
For other countries, it isn’t straightforward. A 24-nation report* last month from the BBC World Service reported that while countries such as Indonesia, the US, India and Australia are the most entrepreneur-friendly, other countries such as Italy, Turkey and Russia make things very difficult for ‘creators’.
A global IP regime would not only enable entrepreneurs in every country to work on the ‘level playing field’ so favoured by cliche-makers, it would also prevent the one-sided brain drain from developing to developed countries that offer more transparent and open opportunities.
The G20 is under no obligation to adopt the B20’s recommendations in September, but a world where ideas are equal and where everybody from Brindisi to Novosibirsk to Abuja and own these ideas and take them to market has to be a good thing... and one that Chris Anderson would undoubtedly endorse.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10127201/Analysis-G20-plans-for-a-global-IP-regime-and-universal-internet-access.html
