How can the WTO better integrate the poorest countries into the growing knowledge-based economy?

In June 2013, the members of the WTO granted LDCs a second transition period extension for the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement of another eight years (until 2021). With an ongoing waiver alone, however, the integration of LDCs into the international system for the protection of intellectual property has merely been postponed, and the world’s poorest countries will remain cut off from the global knowledge-based economy. What is needed instead is a gradual and development-oriented approach for a properly sequenced IP reform in LDCs.

How can the WTO better integrate the poorest countries into the growing knowledge-based economy?