PHILADELPHIA CONSENSUS STATEMENT On University Policies for Health-Related Innovations

To this end, we, the signatories of this Statement, urge universities to adopt the following recommendations. As owners of intellectual property, universities have the ability to promote widespread availability of their technologies in the developing world. When university-owned intellectual property is necessary for the development of a health-related end product— including but not limited to drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, monitoring tools, know-how and technical expertise—universities should: PROMOTE EQUAL ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY RESEARCH...