intellectual property, in particular the Policy on Science and Technology, the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation, the Industrial Policy and Strategy, the Rural Development Strategy, the Policy on Traditional Medicine, the Cultural Policy, and the Strategic Plan on Education and Culture. Agenda 2025 defines “Education, Science and Technology as vehicles for improving the knowledge of the population and raising the quality of human resources”. In addition, this important document suggests that “scientific research and development must give priority to matters that directly meet the need for solutions to the problems facing the country, such as, inter alia, disease and the production of drought-resistant seeds. Point 223 of the PARPA recommends as follows: “for Science and Technology (S&T) to play a strategic role, a fully developed national S&T system needs to be established. Such a system would include, for example, policy guidelines and strategies for public and private institutions that generate knowledge (i.e., scientific research), that transform knowledge into products, services and solutions (i.e., the results of innovation), that develop human resources (for example, the education sector), that direct and coordinate the system (i.e., Ministry of Science and Technology) and also the roles, relationships and links between the players within the S&S system which must be set up and properly maintained so that it will function as it needs to”. Mozambique’s Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy states that “fair access to Science and Technology is the constitutional right of all Mozambicans, irrespective of their geographical location. We will therefore improve our mechanisms for disseminating science and technology, the fruits of scientific research and technology transfer” and “... knowledge is the primary resource for production in Mozambique and the key to reducing poverty is the application of knowledge”. To attain this objective, the Strategy stipulates that an appropriate economic and institutional regime must be set up, to provide a suitable incentive scheme for the creation, adaptation, dissemination and use of new and existing knowledge.