Closing Innovation and Intellectual Property Diversity Gaps

Closing Innovation and Intellectual Property Diversity Gaps

Author: Carpentier, Élodie

Publisher: WIPO

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 63

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Innovation is a driver of competitive advantage and economic growth, with patent rights playing a critical supporting role. However, differential access to patent rights and relatively less participation in innovation can affect women and people from other historically underrepresented groups, thereby hindering progress and limiting the potential economic benefits generated by innovation. This paper reviews the global literature on these “diversity gaps”, identifies their key drivers, and documents international policies and initiatives that show promise in addressing them. Building upon Shapanka and Fechner (2018), it expands the geographic scope and reinforces the scientific basis of their analysis. The paper also provides recommendations for a wide range of stakeholders and offers insights for fostering more inclusive and equitable innovation ecosystems.


Intersections of Law and Computational Intelligence in Health Governance

Intersections of Law and Computational Intelligence in Health Governance

Author: Vig, Komal

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2024-08-23

Total Pages: 444

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Intelligent technologies have vastly improved the efficiency of healthcare industries and intersections of law and governance. Computational intelligence provides effective tools for data management, contract analysis, legal research, and algorithm development. However, with the integration of computational intelligence in health governance, considerable legal concerns beg further exploration. Intersections of Law and Computational Intelligence in Health Governance examines computational intelligence related to healthcare and governance approaches. It addresses issues of healthcare data analysis and storage by presenting solutions using medical computational intelligence techniques. This book covers topics such as healthcare accessibility, medical law, deep learning, and drug discovery and classification, and is a valuable resource for lawyers, policy makers, healthcare workers, medical professionals, academicians, and researchers.


Innovation and IP Rights in the Chilean Copper Mining Sector: The Role of the Mining, Equipment, Technology and Services Firms

Innovation and IP Rights in the Chilean Copper Mining Sector: The Role of the Mining, Equipment, Technology and Services Firms

Author: Claudio Bravo-Ortega

Publisher: WIPO

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 31

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This analysis of intellectual property (IP) protection practices among mining equipment, technology and services suppliers (METS) in Chile’s copper mining sector adds to a body of literature that has hitherto focused on high-income countries. It is based on data collated from an online survey of resident METS and on semi-structured interviews of executives from mining companies and suppliers, including two universities. The main conclusion is that, although METS appear to be innovative in relation to the mining sector and the economy as a whole, only a few use intellectual property rights (IPRs) to protect their innovations. The main reasons for this finding appear to be the cost and expected complexity of the registration process. Another noteworthy finding is the view that Chile has the requisite legal IPR expertise, but commercial capabilities (expertise in IPR-based innovation management and business plans) are much less developed. In the last section, four case studies of product and process innovation by four mining suppliers add some interesting insights to the analysis.


Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation

Author: Heidi L. Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

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A long theoretical literature has analyzed optimal patent policy design, yet there is very little empirical evidence on a key parameter needed to apply these models in practice: the relationship between patent strength and research investments. I argue that the dearth of empirical evidence on this question reflects two key challenges: the difficulty of measuring specific research investments, and the fact that finding variation in patent protection is difficult. I then summarize the findings of two recent studies which have made progress in starting to overcome these empirical challenges by combining new datasets measuring biomedical research investments with novel sources of variation in the effective intellectual property protection provided to different inventions. The first study, Budish, Roin, and Williams (forthcoming), documents evidence consistent with patents affecting the rate and direction of research investments in the context of cancer drug development. The second study, Williams (2013), documents evidence that one form of intellectual property rights on the human genome had quantitatively important impacts on follow-on scientific research and commercial development. I discuss the relevance of both studies for patent policy, and discuss directions for future research.


Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade

Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade

Author: Shayerah Ilias

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781604565621

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Introduction -- Intellectual property rights basics -- Global intellectual property holdings -- Contribution of intellectual property to U.S. economy -- The organized structure of IPR protection -- U.S. trade law -- Issues for Congress.


The Logic of Innovation

The Logic of Innovation

Author: Johanna Gibson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1317025202

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The Logic of Innovation examines not merely the supposed problem of the efficacy and relevance of intellectual property, and the nature of innovation and creativity in a digital environment, but also the very circumstances of that inquiry itself. Social life has itself become a sphere of production, but how might that be understood within the cultural and structural transformation of creativity, innovation and property? Through a highly original interlocutory and therapeutic approach to the issues in play, the author addresses the concepts of innovation and the digital by means of an investigation through literature and the imagination of new scenarios for language, business and legal reform. The book undertakes a complex inquiry into innovation and property through the wonder of Alice’s journeys in Wonderland and through the Looking-glass. The author presents a new theory of familiar production to account for the kinship that has emerged in both informal and commercial modes of innovation, and foregrounds the value of use as crucial to the articulation of intellectual property within contemporary models of production and commercialization in the digital.


Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation - Intersections between Public Health, Intellectual Property and Trade

Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation - Intersections between Public Health, Intellectual Property and Trade

Author: World Intellectual Property Organization

Publisher: WIPO

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9280523082

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This study has emerged from an ongoing program of trilateral cooperation between WHO, WTO and WIPO. It responds to an increasing demand, particularly in developing countries, for strengthened capacity for informed policy-making in areas of intersection between health, trade and IP, focusing on access to and innovation of medicines and other medical technologies.