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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....

Posted in: Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals

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....

Posted in: Technology and Knowledge Diffusion

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....

Posted in: Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals

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....

Posted in: Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals

The Ella Project: Creating Female Role Models

The Ella Project was designed to create female role models and heroines with whom girls can identify.  Importantly, all of these role....

Posted in: Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems

Beyond the Contract: Building a Trade Secret Protection Culture

As Craig Moss, Executive Vice President of Ethisphere, explains in his article, the increasing prevalence of sensitive digital information....

Posted in: Enabling Innovation Policies

Launch of New “Horizon IP Scan” Support Service for SMEs

The European Commission recently launched a service called the “Horizon Intellectual Property Scan.”  This tailored, first-line,....

Posted in: Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems

Healthcare Innovation Main Driver of European Patent Applications in 2020

The latest statistics published by the European Patent Office (EPO) show that innovation in healthcare was the main driver of patenting....

Posted in: Policy Discussions and International Organizations