Tag: ip
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SA’s patent system is failing to encourage innovation
SA’s patents landscape is characterised by easy patent grants to local individuals and bodies, as well as patents of dubious quality and value. This strongly suggests that the existing patent system plays a role in stifling, rather than stimulating, innovation. The publication by the Department of Trade and Industry of a draft intellectual property (IP)…
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It’s sunnier on the Canadian innovation front
A bright spot has emerged amid the persistent gloom over Canada’s supposed decline in research and innovation performance. Traditional innovation indicators such as corporate research and development spending only provide information on inputs to innovation, not outputs. Against a backdrop of falling corporate investment in R&D, it seems Canadian inventiveness has taken a turn for…
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Europe is losing the global innovation race
Unless the European Commission changes its attitude, the innovation gap between Europe and the US will likely increase, and it could be overtaken soon by China, with dire consequences for living standards, warns Philip Stevens. Philip Stevens is director of Geneva Network, a UK-based research organisation focusing on innovation, trade and health policy. The European…
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