Tag: patents
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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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Women in Innovation: Gaining Ground, but Still Far Behind
Patents are a reasonable proxy for the relative contributions of the genders, and there’s a huge disparity still to be overcome World Intellectual Property Day fell on April 26 this year. The theme was “Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity,” so it’s an appropriate time to analyze the gender distribution of scientists and inventors…
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Putting innovation to work
Business innovation isn’t rocket science—it’s really just a creative new way of thinking about how to accomplish a goal. But truly innovative home builders are nearly as rare as people who have walked on the moon. Builders who know how to innovate can reap big rewards. For instance after a Chapter 11 filing in the…
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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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The most innovative countries in the world in one map
HowMuch.NetThe U.S. is by far the most innovative country in the world. It may not be the most prosperous nor the smartest country on earth, but the U.S. leaves the rest of world in the dust in one important area—innovation. The map of the most innovative countries—as measured by the number of patents filed between 1977 to 2015—shows that when…
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