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Promoting festivals, including typical ones drawing on local traditions, culture and
history, linked to fairs for marketing typical local products, including typical local
gourmet products, on local menus and tourism routes, safeguarding them and promoting
an appreciation of them by identifying them through the use of intellectual property
rights, in particular certification marks, appellations of origin and geographical
indications;
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Promoting typical local dress and fashion, adding value to them and promoting their
protection through the use of marks and industrial designs or mechanisms for
safeguarding folklore;
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Incentivizing the protection and development of local techniques for local production
through industrial secrets and other appropriate industrial property rights; and
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Promoting innovation fairs for agro-industrial, inshore fishing, oil, weaving, gourmet and
other typical products and incentivizing the protection of these products through the
conventional intellectual property system or traditional knowledge.
6.4.5. Stimulating the strategic use of intellectual property by small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) as a way of incentivizing competitiveness and innovation
Over 95 % of Mozambique’s industrial base is made up of micro, small and medium-sized
enterprises. These enterprises have a reduced capacity for innovation and competitiveness. Given
the forthcoming challenges of regional integration, it is vitally important for SMEs to be
equipped with a capacity for innovation and competitiveness in order to tackle these.
The strategic use of intellectual property represents a decisive tool for attaining this objective.
Mozambican SMEs have already shown some signs of innovation. For example, almost all the
industrial designs registered in the country come from this sector. Where other industrial
property rights are concerned, however – including marks – foreign enterprises clearly
predominate.