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Intellectual Property and Competition Law

Regulation of the Data Economy in Emerging Economies

Shaping Data-Sharing Policies to Promote the Sustainable Development Goals

Last Update: 10.08.22

Symbolic picture: digitization and sustainability goals; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148539 Under a Creative Commons license
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148539 Under a Creative Commons license

Starting Point

  • The data economy has great potential for emerging economies to achieve SDGs.
  • Leveraging this potential depends on how the framing of data-sharing policies takes place.
  • Shaping more targeted policies for data sharing in emerging economies is key.

Research Questions

  • What are the factors that should inform data-sharing policy-making in emerging economies to better achieve SDGs?
  • What is the role of legal policy in this context?
  • From a comparative perspective, can a one-size-fits-all approach deliver or is a tailored one more suitable?
  • Can we produce overarching policy recommendations to assist these jurisdictions in fulfilling SDGs via data sharing?

Methodology

  • Identification of sectors with potential for the development of each emerging economy, where data sharing serves SDG attainment
  • Fact-finding exercise
  • Three multi-stakeholder workshops in selected countries

  • Conceptualisation of a taxonomy elaborating on the different factors related to the data-sharing status quo in emerging economies
  • Drafting policy recommendations

Preliminary Findings

(based on 1st Workshop)

  • From a business perspective, market-functional approaches seem to be already serving SDG achievement via digitisation and data sharing.
  • Data-sharing policies should be better targeted to the specificities of each emerging economy. One size fits all seems unsuitable.
  • Digitisation is a game-changer. It makes traditional factors that shaped specific policy for brick-and-mortar industries less relevant. Thus, it justifies a less distinct approach for data-sharing policies compared to those in industrialised economies.
  • Digitisation changes traditional ways of addressing the achievement of SDGs.
  • Trade policy should better address the issue that data-localisation obligations can hamper the achievement of SDGs.

Persons

Project Manager

Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl

Members

Dr. Begoña G. Otero,
Carolina Banda,
Jörg Hoffmann,
Germán Johannsen,
Shraddha Kulhari

Research Axes

III. Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Different Economic Areas

Main Areas of Research

III.2 Legal development in non-European jurisdictions