WIPO-SBF PROJECT A PREPARATION OF A STUDY ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS-BASED INDUSTRIES TO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY OF SURINAME Swami Girdhari Paramaribo, 29 April 2016
OBJECTIVE Quantify the economic contribution of copyright and related rights-based industries in Suriname Estimation: 1.Value added to GDP (% of GDP) 2.Share of national employment 3.Foreign trade 4.Growth
DIRECTLY INVOLVED Suriname Business Forum (SBF) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) National Consultant: Swami Girdhari International Consultant: Vanus James
STAKEHOLDERS (1/2) SBF & WIPO General Bureau of Statistics Central Bank of Suriname Department of Education and Community Development -Directorate Culture Department of Justice and Police -Bureau Intellectual Property *
STAKEHOLDERS (2/2) Department of Trade and Industry Planning Office of Suriname KKF, VSB, ASFA Competitiveness Unit Suriname Producers of artistic and literary works Other stakeholders: VRTS, etc... * Bureau Intellectual Property is from march 2016 a part of the Department of Trade and Industry.
RETROSPECT 1.Meetings met SBF, ABS, SPS, IDB 2.Meetings with Departments and Stakeholders 3.Stakeholdersmeeting august Worksession with ABS: Data: deficient & absence of relevant data 5. Additional project => proposal
ADDITIONAL PROJECT COPYRIGHT / CREATIVE SECTOR MEASUREMENT PROGRAMME IN SURINAME & ESTIMATED BUDGET
PROPOSAL – OBJECTIVES To measure the contribution of the copyrigt sector Implementation of a survey in close collaboration with the General Bureau of Statistics: a. Data collection b. Data processing c. Data analysis
PROJECT COMPONENTS (1/2) Component I: Characterizing the Regime of Copyright and Related Rights Component II: Conduct a Copyright Survey – Main Establishments and Household Unincorporated Enterprise with Market Production (HUEMs)
PROJECT COMPONENTS (2/2) Component III: National Accounting to update methods of measuring GDP based on reclassification of IP- related expenditures Component IV: Updated microeconomic measures of the causal effects of copyright
PROJECTMANAGEMENT 1.Oversight team: Representatives of Stakeholders Chair 2. Technical Team: Project Management Team Experts
BUDGET There is a detailed budget plan: Total Estimated Cost: USD ,00 Amount requested to IDB: USD ,00
STATUS Waiting Project on hold Repeat request to IDB Searching for other fundings
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