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Cape Town fire burns university library

A wildfire raging on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain spread on Sunday (April 18th) to the University of Cape Town (a member of the....

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Call for game changing solutions for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021

WIPO Green is calling for game changing solutions for the UN Food Systems Summit, which will take place later this year. The summit is part....

Posted in: Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals

An interview with Nobel Prize winner Robert Lefkowitz

Robert Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. His mantra? If you’re not failing, you’re not asking hard enough questions. During....

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As Locusts Swarmed East Africa, This Tech Helped Get Rid of Them

In 2020, billions of locusts descended on East African countries that had not seen them in decades.  The cause?  Unusual weather connected to....

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Acceleration Project 2021: Finding Ways to Valorize Palm Oil Waste in Indonesia

WIPO GREEN launched its Acceleration Project 2021, targeting a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the South-East Asian region:....

Posted in: Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems

Opinion: How Intellectual Property Rights Helped America Fight COVID-19

James Pooley, a former deputy director general of WIPO and a member of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, explains in this....

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Public–Private Partnerships for Climate Technology Transfer and Innovation: Lessons from the Climate Technology Centre and Network

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, and a number of other important....

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Solar Entrepreneurship Masterclass 12 May, 12pm GMT

On Wednesday, 12 May at 12pm GMT, Tony Tiyou, founder and CEO of Renewables in Africa, a clean energy engineering company and a media platform....

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Techinvention’s scFv libraries help fight COVID-19

Innovation Council member Techinvention, has successfully generated two scFv libraries using phage display technologies from the convalescent....

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