Resources and Recent Developments

Recent Developments

Africa Young Innovators for Health Award

The 2021 edition of the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award focuses on supporting innovations that can make a difference to healthcare....

Posted in: Enabling Innovation Policies

The pandemic has inspired and challenged medical innovation

The need for new and more effective methods of prevention and treatment is constant, and the spread of COVID-19 has emphasized that demand.....

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Trade in the time of pandemics

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first female and first African leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO) argues why trade will help us find a way....

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5G in sports: Here’s how event experiences will transform

Peter Marshall, 5G Principal Lead for King’s College London, explains the future of event experiences and four areas where 5G can enhance the....

Posted in: Technology and Knowledge Diffusion

Why benchmarking is essential to patent strategy

According to a study by Cipher conducted in association with IAM, 98% of patent owners rely on benchmarking to support their patent strategy.....

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Why the differences in valuing patents and trade secrets matter

It is important, for a startup to understand how patents and trade secrets can be valued as assets, the positive and negative factors that go....

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How SMEs can use IP to secure success in the new data-fuelled AI paradigm

As the next generation of data-driven analytics gets underway and the need to deliver value from AI system outputs becomes more urgent, smaller....

Posted in: Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems

5G accelerates economic growth

The profound impact of 5G on the economy is outlined in this report, showing the impact of growth in different types of industries, such as....

Posted in: Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals

Five things to keep in mind when thinking about 5G

5G will be ubiquitous, but the picture is more complex than simply “adding 5G” to services. The 5 points raised in this article show that 5G....

Posted in: Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals