The title of this book in honour of Pedro Roffe—with its focus on the development impact of the interface between intellectual property rights (IPRs), technology transfer and investment—is most befitting. If we consider the positive impacts on development that may be achieved in the fields of intellectual property, technology transfer and investment, we find one person constantly at the centre of research and advocacy in this area: Pedro Roffe. Pedro’s lifelong work has consistently sought to place the development and the interests of developing countries at the forefront of processes related to intellectual property and technology transfer that might have otherwise excluded them. The creation of conceptual links between the aforementioned fields likewise owes a great deal to Pedro’s work over the past 45 years. Pedro joined the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1972 soon after the UNCTAD III session was held in Santiago, Chile. He started working shortly afterwards on the well-known report on “The Role of the Patent System in the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries” (hereinafter “the Report”), published by UNCTAD in partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1975. This seminal report, which has influenced and informed most of the subsequent international debate on intellectual property, transfer of technology and development, was very well received internationally, particularly in developing countries. It called, among other things, for the revision of the international patent system, the purpose of which was to be “that of making patent laws and practices capable of effectively complementing other instruments of policy for national development”.