To this end, there is an urgent need to undertake thorough awareness-raising work in all
government sectors and production sectors and throughout civil society in general, to demystify
the intellectual property system and turn it into a development tool.
A strategic goal is:
To ensure the adequate dissemination of intellectual property.
To achieve this goal, the following actions must be carried out:
• Conduct a study on the use of intellectual property in Mozambique and the public perception
of its importance, and design a more appropriate dissemination system;
• Adopt effective mechanisms for demystifying intellectual property, and for its dissemination
and use for the benefit of the whole of a society and for the development of the country;
• Introduce an Intellectual Property Day for Mozambique;
• Conduct intellectual property awareness-raising campaigns, including events (workshops,
seminars, talks, conferences, etc.) on intellectual property throughout the country and in all
sectors (both public and private);
• Set up consultation services offering information and technical assistance on how to obtain,
manage, market and safeguard intellectual property rights;
• Produce and disseminate informative material on intellectual property;
• Produce publications containing intellectual property legislation and annotated versions or
interpretative guides to the laws, to facilitate the understanding and handling of IP;
• Produce a specialized review on intellectual property; and
• Create a single portal for information on intellectual property.
6.2. Education and intellectual property
The intellectual property system provides the tools for the appropriation and exclusive economic
exploitation of intangible property. This being so, there is a need to educate creators and
innovators about the value of their creations and the opportunity for them to generate wealth
using their intellectual efforts.
A culture of accumulating and economically exploiting intellectual property, including