The emerging world order of intellectual properly protection while creating new and stricter multilateral rules for technology transfer, presents several challenges to developing countries. Besides the burden of new additional payments of royalties from the South, it also would point to a restraint in the free flow of scientific and technological information from the North, perhaps a new kind of " technological apartheid". Developing countries should start from within the adjustment the new order, probably by means of regional programs of technological cooperation, which Southern Latin-American countries are the best qualified to perform in the framework of the Mercosul integration process.
