Anticipate, Inform, Shape.

We worked with WIPO’s Global Challenges Division to set up a platform that enables IP offices to exchange insights and best practices in leveraging the IP system to accelerate green innovation and the global diffusion of technology solutions for sustainability. The platform has been used to share case studies, organize exchanges and seminars, and showcase promising green initiatives from IP offices across regions.

This chapter, in the book Technologies for Development (edited by Silvia Hofstettler of EPFL in Switzerland), describes commercial channels for innovation and the global diffusion of green technology solutions, with a focus on emerging markets. The chapter includes several examples of green tech transfer deals that contributed to better local manufacturing and innovative capacity in developing countries.

This paper was developed with input from UNCTAD, WTO, and WHO experts. It considers the impact of tariffs on distributed R&D and manufacturing of health products. It stresses the importance of ensuring policy coherence – notably in relation to trade policies including border measures – in order to build biomanufacturing infrastructure and expertise across developing countries and regions.

This research paper was commissioned by WIPO, in order to identify and examine emerging best practices in closing the gender gap in access to IP systems and IP management. While the authors did not find any established best practices, the project uncovered a range of promising initiatives which, in the years since this was published, have successfully scaled and delivered substantial positive impact for individual female inventors, entrepreneurs and creators as well as society.

This analysis was developed as part of the Edison Fellowship program at CPIP (now the Intellectual Property Policy Institute (IPPI) hosted at the University of Akron Law School). It traces the evolution of the South African framework for managing publicly funded research outcomes, and describes how the system is set up to ensure these research outcomes can be transformed into products that improve the lives of South Africans while appropriately benefitting the inventors and their R&D/commercialization partners.

This paper is part of a series of analyses commissioned by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) IP Commission to raise awareness about how IP rights work in practice. It unpacks a range of IP management challenges, emerging best practices, and opportunities that are specific to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).