Intellectual Property and Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges in the GCC Member States: A Preliminary Introduction
摘要
This chapter introduces the chapter contributions that constitute this volume. It firstly provides context for their origins, namely presentations delivered at the Gulf Research Council’s 13th International Meeting Workshop at the University of Cambridge in July 2023. The Workshop theme as enshrined in its title was Innovation and Development of Knowledge Societies – Transformational Impact of IP on Knowledge based Economic Growth with focus on Frontier Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and IP Financing. The chapter provides background on the GCC member States and briefly discusses their endeavours to embark on sweeping reforms to move away from being largely energy resource-based economies towards broader-based economies through diversification. It then explains the three thematic groupings of the contributions. The first group include the GCC intellectual property/artificial intelligence/economic development interface using sport as the exemplar; the nature of the metaverse in the GCC; and Omani technological advancement and intellectual property rights. The second group turn to artificial intelligence systems and intellectual property financing, audit and valuation under Islamic law principles; intellectual property securitization and marketable securities as Sukuk; and a case study of Malaysian initiatives for the intellectual property sector with Islamic financing products. The third group examine differing aspects of commercialization in an artificial intelligence and intellectual property context, including the GCC economies in a shifting global market; artificial intelligence and intellectual property in the music world; and intellectual property and finance in the cryptocurrency landscape. The final contribution continues on with this future scenario on the intellectual property and artificial intelligence relationship but at the same retains both an Islamic context and a fundamental precept of Shariah as the foundational core of Gulf societies. The chapter concludes by then offering a brief analysis of each of the following chapters.