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This chapter discusses the human development approach to intellectual property (IP) and suggests some areas for further research. As the chapter explains, IP can positively affect human development and human flourishing. Human development refers to factors such as those measured by the United Nations Human Development Index, and includes health, education, and financial well-being. This human development framing can also incorporate subjective measures of human flourishing, such as happiness. A human development lens treats IP as a tool for promoting progress by improving the human condition, and recognizes human development as an objective of IP law rather than as an incidental by-product of the trade-based IP system. |
