Stimulating University-Industry collaboration

Stimulating University-Industry collaboration

At the beginning of March, the European Commission published in the form of recommendations two codes of practice for University-Industry co-creation and citizen involvement initiatives on the issues of knowledge valorization. This is a set of indications to follow in...
EPO Patent Index 2023

EPO Patent Index 2023

The European Patent Office-EPO has published the EPO Patent Index 2023, i.e. the statistical analysis of patent activities at the office referring to 2023. In 2023, the EPO received 199,275 patent applications, an absolute record to date, which is 2.9% more than in...
The Future of Industrial Strategies

The Future of Industrial Strategies

The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge’s Industrial Innovation Policy Group, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization-UNIDO, has identified five grand challenges for companies and governments to work on to address...
Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court

Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court

On 17th February, Germany deposited the ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA). The step marks the successful completion of the necessary ratification procedures by the participating EU member states for the Unitary Patent Package to become...
WIPO publishes Green Technology Book

WIPO publishes Green Technology Book

In concomitance with the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt), at the beginning of November, WIPO has published the report ‘Green Technology Book’.   The Green Technology Book focuses on available solutions for climate-change...