REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLE 66.2
The following communication, dated 10 October 2025, from the delegation of Australia, is being circulated pursuant to
paragraph 1 of the Decision on Implementation of Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement
(document _IP/C/28).
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1 Introduction
1. This report in respect of Article 66.2 builds upon annual reports
provided since 2012 which are available on the WTO e-TRIPS Gateway. The
report focuses on incentives for the purpose of promoting and encouraging
technology transfer to least-developed countries (LDCs).
2. In this report, technology transfer is taken to include training,
education and the dissemination of knowledge, as well as the intellectual
property embedded in transferred goods and services and the dissemination of
business information and know-how on which a product, process or service is
based.
3. This report focuses on Australia's efforts to help LDCs create the
conditions to encouraging technology transfer. Technical cooperation in favour
of least developed and developing countries to facilitate the TRIPS Agreement's
implementation is another discrete obligation, on which Australia reports
separately.
4. In Australia, many incentives for technology transfer take the form
of official development assistance (ODA).
5. Enterprises and institutions eligible for funding to deliver
projects and activities to facilitate technology transfer include government
agencies and public institutions, non-government organisations, independent
consultants and experts and universities and research organisations.
6. Australian aid has been untied since 2006, allowing non-Australian
organisations to bid for contracts to supply goods and services under bilateral
and multilateral development assistance programmes. Untied aid helps ensure
activities represent value for money, are cost-effective and attract the
best-available global expertise, thereby achieving the best development results
including for LDCs. Consistent with this, Australia's aid-funded incentives for
technology transfer are not restricted to Australian institutions and
enterprises.
This report's annex includes specific
examples of relevant programs and projects in the format suggested by LDCs (IP/C/W/561).