Expert Meeting on Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights

Recognizing the ongoing policy challenge to establish an optimal balance between IPR protection and openness as critical for the operationalization of Open Science worldwide, UNESCO invited experts on the topic, Member States’ representatives and the broad UNESCO Open Science community to discuss the relationships between IPRs and Open Science; to present the different existing instruments and mechanisms that reconcile ownership and sharing/openness, and to exchange on balanced approaches between IPRs and Open Science.