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In this article, I examine whether the contemporary regional intellectual property (IP) agreements negotiated by West African countries are more suitable than multilateral agreements to advance...

The seed industry in Pakistan has undergone significant developments since the 1950s and has transitioned from ‘Green Revolution’ to ‘Gene Revolution’. The 2015 amendment in the Seed Act, 1976, and the enactment...

Projects, knowledge and tools for capacity building in technology transfer

Knowledge Transfer (KT) aims to maximise the two–way flow of technology, IP and ideas. In turn this enables companies (existing and new) or other non–academic organisations and the public sector...

Explore WIPO’s latest complete data on intellectual propert activity around the world.

The main objective of this report is to identify third countries in which the state of IPR protection and enforcement (both online and offline) gives rise to the greatest level of concern and thereby...

In December 2019 the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) published a study “on a collaboration system for the commercialisation of intellectual property in the EU”, aimed to discuss means...

This report contains a summary of the discussions held and the presentations made at the 2016 Technology Transfer Office Circle (TTO Circle) workshop on the "Evaluation of intangibles and novel technologies: Art...

This report contains a summary of the discussions held and the presentations made at “IPR, Technology Transfer & Open Science” workshop. The workshop aimed to bring together a wide range...