Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
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Technology transfer of new ideas and innovation from universities and research institutes into society is a major source of Europe’s “knowledge economy”. However, EU firms are struggling to better exploit public-funded research (like those from universities) and transform their findings…
There are a number of new “green” technologies making there way to the market. The US is even cutting a year off of the 40 month time period for approval of patents, just for new green technologies. “Every day an…
In Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad of December 11 Oscar Garschagen wrote[1] about massive fraud in Chinese academia. NRC cites Fang Shimin, a freelance writer and self-appointed watchdog of research misconduct who was recently brutally attacked, initiated by Professor Xiao Chuanguo,…
Thomas L. Friedman reminded us that “Invent, Invent, Invent” is the mantra to get us out of economic downturn. A surprising number of great companies, like General Electric, IBM, Kraft, McDonald’s, Walt Disney and Electronic Arts were formed in years…
Tomorrow, Monday April 26, is World Intellectual Property Day. Initiated by WIPO in 2000, the 10th anniversary of this day coincides with the 40th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention establishing WIPO (the WIPO Convention). There are…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva published its “World Intellectual Property Indicators 2009”. It provides – among others – statistics on how many patent applications have been filed via WIPO’s PCT. The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an…
“Invent, Invent, Invent” is today’s op-ed column of Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times. Can’t be more true. Monday Note gives an interesting overview of the inventions made during recession times: 1975, in the middle of a recession,…
The McKinsey Quarterly published an interesting read, “Memo to the CEO: Why we need an annual report for technology1 The idea is for a technology rich company to issue an annual report for technology analogous to the annual report for…
Sadly, the IP community has for long failed to go out telling the non-IP world – not least the top management of companies and governments alike – in simple, understandable terms what crucial role IP plays and how underestimated its…
In November 2008 the European Commission published its Preliminary Report on it’s “Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry”. Some of the conclusions are pretty harsh and can hardly be seen as friendly towards the pharmaceutical industry: “The preliminary findings of the inquiry also…
The European Research Area (ERA) was created at the EU Council, held in Lisbon in 2000 in the context of the Lisbon Strategy, also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process. It’s aim is (or, better, was) to make…
The conclusions from the Booz Allen Hamilton study – as mentioned in yesterday’s post on this blog (“R&D spending doess not necessarlity increase profits”) are quite in line with the points I make in public events. However, the Booz Allen…
Companies spend billions of dollars on R&D to boost innovation output in the expectation of increasing profitability. From a study publised today by Booz Allen Hamilton, “Smart Spenders: The Global Innovation 1000“, it appears that it is not as easy…