Overall assessment and recommendations

This chapter presents an overall assessment of Kazakhstan’s intellectual property (IP) system and gives recommendations to help enhance its contributions to innovation. It provides an overview of the context in which IP policy is made, including the legal framework, the policy actors involved in the intellectual property system, and the needs and use of intellectual property by universities and public research institutes, innovators in traditional and informal sectors, small and medium-sized enterprises, state-owned enterprises and multinational firms.