Export strategies using Intellectual Property (IP) can involve literally millions of producers and show a new and exciting direction for success.Light Years IP, with support from the UK Department for International Development, has conducted a scoping study on the range and scale of opportunies. This study explores some of the possibilities for large-scale opportunities to increase export income and improve the security of that income for millions all over sub-Saharan Africa.
The 14 product sectors selected for this study have potential for increasing export income from $1.1 billion per annum, to between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion per annum. The study estimates that IP based strategies can similarly be applied to Sub-Saharan export products, now earning around $9 billion per annum, which would increase export income to between $20 billion and $27 billion per annum.
The findings of the study have been published in a report which can be here: Distinctive_values_in_African_exports.pdf
Related: Policy brief of Light Years IP about
