A Modern Role for Intellectual Property Rights in Sustainable Finance, Prudential Banking and Capital Adequacy Regulation

Technological innovation and capitalism have rapidly transformed our planet, raising our living standards while degrading the environment. The most striking impact of the advance of human-created technological progress on the natural environment is climate change. There is an urgent need for a wide variety of innovations to solve problems on a global scale. One of the multi-faceted aspects of sustainable development in a market-based context is the role that intellectual property rights (IPRs) play in incentivizing new knowledge and fiscal regulatory policy. How banks provide innovation firms with credit, while mitigating their own risk, is an ongoing challenge with both short- and long-term implications. Prudential banking regulation has yet to fully consider the modern role of intangible assets and IPRs in business and the economy and as bank assets. With new insights regarding the role of prudential financial regulation treatment of intangibles and especially IPRs such as patents, trade marks and designs that are formally registered, this chapter makes an original contribution to the interdisciplinary literature regarding Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG 9) to promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization while fostering innovation.