27 de maio de 2024
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WIPO releases World Intellectual Property Report 2024
On May 2, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released its World Intellectual Property Report 2024: A guide for policymakers. The document is released every two years and this time it was entitled “Making innovation policy work for development”. According to WIPO Director-General Daren Tang, “the report is expected to provide guidance to policymakers around the world on how to harness innovation to improve productivity, competitiveness and development in a context of global economic change, geopolitical tensions and digital acceleration”.
The WIPO report is based on an analysis and three case studies to explore how economies can diversify their capacities with the support of innovation policies. In its first chapter, the document addresses economic development, economic complexity, and industrial policy. It introduces the concept of economic complexity and explains how policymakers can facilitate the diffusion of knowledge to promote industrial growth.
In the second chapter, the report looks at innovation capabilities as a guide to successful policymaking. In short, here WIPO explores the concept of complexity of innovation and the principle of relatedness (PoR) to assess know-how. It also uses data on trade, scientific publications, and patents to develop indicators of innovation complexity, noting that there are notable differences between economies in terms of scientific, technological and production shares. One example is that Brazil’s share of exports and scientific articles is higher than its share of GDP, but the percentage of international patents is not.
The third chapter of the report analyzes “the importance of local capacities in AgTech specialization”. The term AgTech refers, according to the text, to technology-based solutions that respond to the challenges of agriculture. Here, Brazil is also cited as an example of diversification in the traditional sugarcane industry, focusing on the leadership of the São Paulo ethanol production hub and the use of IP instruments to protect AgTech innovations.
The last two chapters deal, respectively, with the historical relationship between the motorcycle industry and sustainable technological advances and the use of local knowledge to develop new electronic gaming hubs. In the latter, the WIPO report demonstrates how local knowledge, cultural capital and interconnected industries collectively influence the evolution of the sector, as well as highlighting the work of Japan, Finland, the United States and Poland in using their own cultural heritage to develop new games.
The document can be accessed via the link: World Intellectual Property Report 2024
Note: For quick release, this English version is provided by automated translation without human review.
