BOTEC assists in on-going developments in protecting Botswana’s traditional knowledge by chairing an Indigenous Knowledge Task Force, which has been mandated to draft the indigenous knowledge section for the Industrial Property Rights Act in order to help Botswana’s indigenous knowledge practitioners to benefit from their IP. Traditional medicine processes can be successfully commercialized through such schemes. For example, researchers have successfully incorporated the medically-significant part of “Devil’s Claw”, a common plant found in Botswana and used for many years to treat different ailments , into capsule formats which facilitated its commercialization at home and abroad.