WIPO recognition for Professor A Damodaran's paper
The study has been listed as a UN document on intellectual property and development issues
Professor A Damodaran's study titled, 'Economics of IP and International Technology Transfer', originally commissioned by the WIPO, has been listed as a WIPO document and considered by WIPO's high level Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) at its Fourteenth Session in Geneva during November 10 to 14, 2014. The WIPO is a United Nations Organization.
The study comprises three papers viz. Operationalizing Article 7 of WTO TRIPS: State of Art, Constraints and Prospects; Innovation, Financing Mechanisms and Transfer of Technologies; and Strategizing Innovative Enabling Conditions for Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries.
The papers list a comprehensive set of reccomendations on how IP regimes can be rendered compatible with WTO - TRIPS, without altering the fundamental quest for innovation and R&D in global public goods including health, climate-related technologies. The paper was peer reviewed at two levels prior to coming up for discussions at the CDIP.
The WIPO, a UN body is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation and comprises 188 member countries. The CDIP is a key IP Policy Forum in the WIPO that is mandated to discuss IP- and development-related issues. All the 188 countries of the WIPO are members of the CDIP.
Professor A Damodaran is the MHRD Chair Professor on IPRs at IIM Bangalore and has publications in the fields of IP in relation to biotechnology, traditional knowledge and heritage, and environmentally sound technologies. He has also consulted with the UN Convention on biological diversity, and the Asian Development Bank, UN ESCAP, UNEP on IP, technology transfer and financing and investment matters. He has provided inputs to India's plantation industry on plant breeders' rights, plant biotechnology and geographic indications.
WIPO recognition for Professor A Damodaran's paper
The study has been listed as a UN document on intellectual property and development issues
Professor A Damodaran's study titled, 'Economics of IP and International Technology Transfer', originally commissioned by the WIPO, has been listed as a WIPO document and considered by WIPO's high level Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) at its Fourteenth Session in Geneva during November 10 to 14, 2014. The WIPO is a United Nations Organization.
The study comprises three papers viz. Operationalizing Article 7 of WTO TRIPS: State of Art, Constraints and Prospects; Innovation, Financing Mechanisms and Transfer of Technologies; and Strategizing Innovative Enabling Conditions for Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries.
The papers list a comprehensive set of reccomendations on how IP regimes can be rendered compatible with WTO - TRIPS, without altering the fundamental quest for innovation and R&D in global public goods including health, climate-related technologies. The paper was peer reviewed at two levels prior to coming up for discussions at the CDIP.
The WIPO, a UN body is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation and comprises 188 member countries. The CDIP is a key IP Policy Forum in the WIPO that is mandated to discuss IP- and development-related issues. All the 188 countries of the WIPO are members of the CDIP.
Professor A Damodaran is the MHRD Chair Professor on IPRs at IIM Bangalore and has publications in the fields of IP in relation to biotechnology, traditional knowledge and heritage, and environmentally sound technologies. He has also consulted with the UN Convention on biological diversity, and the Asian Development Bank, UN ESCAP, UNEP on IP, technology transfer and financing and investment matters. He has provided inputs to India's plantation industry on plant breeders' rights, plant biotechnology and geographic indications.