6. STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGIC AREAS
The cross-cutting nature of the intellectual property system means that it must be incorporated
into all areas of the country’s social, economic, scientific and cultural life. Correctly applied and
used, it will invigorate all sectors and stimulate creativity, innovation and progress in
Mozambique.
There is an urgent need to take immediate action to improve the dissemination of IP and its
gradual incorporation into all sectors. In the medium term it will be necessary to lay the
foundations for ensuring that training, at all levels, encourages the promotion of ideas and that
economic agents add value to their products by incorporating IP into production, as well as
creating a body of intangible property. In short, there is a need to create an intellectual property
culture in Mozambique.
The main strategic areas in which concrete action will be undertaken to galvanize the IP system
in Mozambique have been identified as follows:
• Dissemination;
• Education;
• Scientific and technological research;
• Innovation and competitiveness in industry;
• Traditional knowledge and biodiversity;
• Creativity and development of the cultural industry;
• Administration of the intellectual property system.
6.1. Dissemination of intellectual property
In parallel, all government sectors need to understand and take on board the importance of
intellectual property for stimulating economic, cultural, scientific and technological
development. An understanding of the fundamental importance of intellectual property will
result in its being incorporated into governmental activities that involve IP and will create the
conditions for the strategic use of intellectual property for the benefit of the country. It will,
moreover, allow greater safeguarding of intellectual property rights by the relevant institutions,
such as the judicial system, the police and customs.