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TISCs Report 2024
Building skills to support innovation
This annual report of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) highlights the main developments and milestones in 2024, with a focus on how TISCs in 93 countries and technology transfer structures continued to expand their services to meet the needs of local innovators, and how WIPO supports them with new resources.
Año de publicación: 2025
World Intangible Investment Highlights 2025
Better Data for Better Policy
Co-published annually by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in partnership with the Luiss Business School (LBS), this second edition of the World Intangible Investment Highlights (WIIH) reveals that intangible investment in the global economy has grown nearly four times faster than tangible investment since 2008, despite economic headwinds and business uncertainty. The World Intangible Investment Highlights 2025 and its underlying Global INTAN-Invest Database (July 2025) provide unprecedented statistics on cross-country investment—both annual and quarterly—spanning 27 high- and middle-income economies, with India added in 2024 and Brazil in the 2025 edition.
WIPO Pathfinders Report
Exploring the futures of IP driven innovation and creativity
The WIPO Pathfinders Report synthesizes insights from over 45 interviews with prominent thought leaders and experts within the innovation and creation ecosystem, exploring how IP-driven innovation and creativity might evolve by 2034. Structured across four chapters, the report assists Member States and the IP community in understanding how current trends may shape the future landscape, providing a foundation for exploring various potential futures for the IP system in the medium to long term.
Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review – 2025
The International Patent System
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international patent system.
A Primer on Technology Transfer in the Field of Biotechnology
This publication provides practical, user-friendly templates and recommended language for professionals in the biotechnology innovation ecosystem. It aims to help biotechnology innovation stakeholders understand the environment needed for sustainability, legal certainty and effective technology transfer in this sector, and the considerations involved in challenging issues such as the role of intellectual property (IP) in the creation, protection, commercialization and transfer of research outcomes from laboratories to public and private users. The Primer includes helpful templates as well as example agreements and clauses that have been utilized in successful biotechnology agreements.
LDC Graduation Toolkit
Toolkit in patent and technology law for Member States graduation from least developed country status
This Toolkit assists national policymakers in identifying legal gaps which may need to be addressed upon graduating from LDC status in relation to the protection and enforcement of patents, layout designs of integrated circuits and trade secrets under the TRIPS Agreement and the applicable international framework. It also contains frequently asked questions and general guidance, and complements needs-assessment for LDC graduation support provided by WIPO.
Hague Yearly Review 2025
International Registration of Industrial Designs
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international registration of industrial designs.
Digital Access to Knowledge and Women in Science
Economic Research Working Paper No. 88
Scientific progress relies on access to prior knowledge, yet costly access to academic literature can hinder researchers, particularly in marginalized positions of academia and developing economies. This paper examines the impact of free or lower-cost access to scientific literature on gender representation in research. Leveraging the staggered adoption of the Hinari program, which provides digital access to health science research, we analyze its effects on women's participation in research production and academic publishing across more than 600 institutions in 80 countries.
Madrid Yearly Review 2025
International Registration of Marks
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international registration of marks.
Country Perspectives: Japan's Journey
Japan's Journey in the "Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series" presents an overview of how IP-backed financing is gaining traction as a strategy for many SMEs in Japan without fixed assets. To this end, government initiatives have been developed to educate IP owners, as well as financial institutions, on understanding IP assets and their critical role in driving businesses. This involves going beyond a quantitative approach and solely focusing on their value in the balance sheets but also complementing it with a qualitative assessment how the IP is driving businesses.