World Intellectual Property Organization

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Chinese Premier Li Chang has pledged to deepen cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization to promote global innovation and economic development.

During a meeting with WIPO Director General Darren Tang in Beijing, Premier Li said China stands ready to strengthen cooperation in intellectual property services, information technology and human resources.

Tang congratulated China on its achievements in intellectual property development, saying the country ranks among the world's top 10 in the Global Innovation Index and has the largest number of top 100 innovation clusters.

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Chinese Premier Li Chang has pledged to deepen cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization to promote global innovation and economic development.

During a meeting with WIPO Director General Darren Tang in Beijing, Premier Li said China stands ready to strengthen cooperation in intellectual property services, information technology and human resources.

Tang congratulated China on its achievements in intellectual property development, saying the country ranks among the world's top 10 in the Global Innovation Index and has the largest number of top 100 innovation clusters.

Canada is struggling to turn innovation into growth.

Each year, the World Intellectual Property Organization ranks around 140 countries on their performance through its Global Innovation Index.

Not only does Canada underperform relative to its peers based on the latest report, but its ranking has also slid since 2011, falling from 8th place globally to 16th today.

So what's preventing Canada from generating the kind of innovation that drives growth? In addition to reporting how well countries do overall, the World Intellectual Property Organization also breaks down the underlying components that feed into a country's overall rank.

The Global Innovation Index measures innovation across a range of categories covering both the inputs of innovation, such as institutions, human capital, and infrastructure, as well as the outputs, the new ideas, inventions, brands, and product designs those inputs produce.

Based on the results, Canada's innovation problem doesn't stem from a lack of talent or knowledge.

I've been debating how to answer this question so we did actually pre-arrange these questions sorry not to let the cat out of the bag but I want to first start with We, again, intellectual property is a term that we think has been around forever.

And actually, the first official, I didn't know this at the time until I was writing the book, the first official institution that had the words intellectual property in it was the World Intellectual Property Organization.

And that wasn't created until 1967.

And if any of you ever use Ngram, which is the Google sort of tool which tracks usage of words, you will find that the word intellectual property barely has a blip from 1800 until all of a sudden 1976, and it shoots up.

D'abord, j'aimerais juste revenir sur la question d'avant, parce que ce qui me semble important aussi, c'est de dire que ce choix de s'intégrer, de s'impliquer dans la recherche aussi, c'est un choix qui est très suisse, en fin de compte.

Ce choix d'innover aussi, on le retrouve dans, dans le fait que la Suisse est, euh, en tête de l'index d'innovation de l'Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle depuis plus de seize ans.

Et la Suisse a toujours choisi de mettre en avant ce, ce potentiel d'innovation, cette capacité d'innovation qui l'a aussi servi, qui a servi sa prospérité pendant des années.

Donc la Suisse est un modèle en termes d'innovation.

Now, this one brand new just rolled out at this particular meeting that happened a couple of weeks ago.

launched for the first time by the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, so let's get out that whip and let's put you in your place.

This award is bestowed on visionary cities, not for what they've already accomplished, but for the pledges to foster innovation and creativity.

You see, if we throw in creativity, We can attach it to education.

Oh, tell us a little bit about that.

So we're doing quite a lot of work with WIPO and World Trade Organization at the moment around the anti-patent rhetoric.

Yeah.

So, yeah, we're interested in what you've been doing there.

Yeah, so we're doing a huge bit of work with WIPA at the moment from CIPA's perspective.

So it's fascinating that you've been involved in that previously.

But what brings you here? It's not the WIPO gig, is it? So you're at Roche? Yes.

What's on their radar?