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Roadmap for a role for intellectual property offices in the governance of green innovation
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Abstract
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| Key messages: 1. Many Intellectual Property Offices (IPOs) have a mandate or considerable autonomy to allow them to offer a wide variety of pre-grant and post-grant services to green innovators to guide the latter towards a more sustainable (i.e. ecological and societal) management of their IP rights. 2. The landscape of IPO initiatives for green innovation is varied and would benefit from a more systematic and transparent approach allowing IPOs to identify, learn and tailor best practices. We identify six clusters of initiatives in this contribution. 3. IPOs should consider integrating green innovation initiatives throughout the IP lifecycle by setting up one stop shops or green technology hubs that can support the variety of activities. However, this is only feasible if sufficient financial, human and technical resources are allocated. Partnerships with other government actors and other IPOs on such green initiatives (e.g. the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) GREEN) will save costs. 4. This new expanding role for IPOs in green innovation may signal their trustworthiness by indicating their expertise, benevolence and integrity in supporting sustainable development. |
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English
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8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, 3-4 May, 2023, New York City, USA
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United Nations
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2023
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5 p.
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Full text (open access)
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