scholarly journals The Role of the Patent System in Stimulating Innovation and Technology Transfer for Climate Change

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee-Eun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Patent System ◽  
Innovation And Technology

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OF MEDICAL DEVICES FOSTERED BY CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES OF PRACTITIONERS

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (06) ◽  
pp. 1540012 ◽  
Author(s):  
CRISTINA PÁEZ-AVILÉS ◽  
ESTEVE JUANOLA-FELIU ◽  
ISLAM BOGACHAN-TAHIRBEGI ◽  
MÓNICA MIR ◽  
MANEL GONZÁLEZ-PIÑERO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Effective Transfer

Commercialisation of emerging technological innovations such as medical devices can be a time-consuming and lengthy process resulting in a market entrance failure. To tackle this general problem, major challenges are being analysed, principally focusing on the role of Communities of Practitioners (CoPs) in the process of effective transfer of high-value emerging technologies from academia to market. Taking a case study approach, this document describes the role of a cross-disciplinary CoP in the technology transfer process within a convergence scenario. The case presented is a sensor array for ischemia detection developed by different practitioners from diverse organisations: university, research institution, hospital, and a scientific park. The analysis also involves the innovation ecosystem where all stakeholders are taken into account. This study contributes to a better understanding of the managerial implications of CoP fostering technology transfer and innovation, principally focused on the current need for new biomedical technologies and tools.

scholarly journals Digitalization to Achieve Technology Innovation in Climate Technology Transfer

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Woo-Jin Lee ◽  
Rose Mwebaza
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Climate Change Responses ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Staged Model

Technology Innovation has the potential to play a strategic role in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of national efforts to address climate change. The United Nations (UN) Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) is mandated to support developing countries’ climate change responses through innovative technologies to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. In order to enhance the role of the CTCN as an innovation matchmaker, it is important to explore and leverage the implementation potential of new digital technologies and their transformational impact. Thus, in this research, to engage digitalization as an innovative tool with the environment, we first explored digitalization during the climate technology transfer processes by comprehensively reviewing CTCN Technical Assistance (Digitalization Technical Assistance, D-TA) activities in three climate sectors of risk prediction, policy decision making, and resource optimization. Then, by applying analytical methodologies of in-depth interviews with major digital-climate stakeholders and a staged model for technology innovation, we propose future strategies for enhancing the role of CTCN as an innovation matchmaker in the three digitalization cases of digital collection, digital analysis, and digital diffusion.

scholarly journals The Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Economic Development Through Innovation and Technology Transfer

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei BORȘA ◽  
Sevastița MUSTE ◽  
Maria TOFANÄ‚ ◽  
Andruța Elena MUREȘAN (CERBU) ◽  
Vlad MUREȘAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
New Jobs

This paper examines the potential role of the Entrepreneurial Universities in the national economic growth. The entrepreneurial universities integrate economic development as a function of teaching and research further. By focusing their research on the economic needs of the society, the results can be immediately exploited in the form of products and services. By including entrepreneurship guidance in their program, the research can be transformed into new enterprises such as start-ups and spin-offs, thus creating new jobs.

Intellectual Property and Climate Change, with an Emphasis on Patents and Technology Transfer

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Sarnoff
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Free Energy ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Patent System ◽  
Indirect Approach ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Green Climate Fund ◽  
Social Motivations ◽  
International Climate

This chapter addresses some of the issues raised between the patent system and the international climate change regime. Substantial theoretical and empirical uncertainties remain regarding whether the patent system is the best method of promoting investment, innovation, and dissemination of technologies. It highlights the end of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancún where the UNFCCC agreed to focus its technology development and transfer efforts to the patent system through two new subsidiary institutions: the Technology Mechanism and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The chapter also describes a few of the alternatives to the patent system such as the Hartwell Paper, which offers a more indirect approach by harnessing coextensive social motivations to adopt carbon-free energy technologies.

Climate Change Resilience and Technology Transfer: The Role of Intellectual Property

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Monirul Azam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Climate Change Resilience

AbstractThe impact of climate change has emerged as a major threat to sustainable development and poverty reduction efforts in many less developed countries, in particular in the least developed countries (LDCs) such as the countries in the African region and Small Island States. New technologies are necessary for the stabilization and reduction of atmospheric greenhouse gases and to enhance the capacity of poor countries to respond to shifts in resource endowments that are expected to accompany climate change. Therefore, technology transfer, particularly in the case of access to environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) is widely seen as an integral part of climate change resilience. Concerted efforts will be required for the development, deployment and transfer of ESTs to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to the risks of climate change. Thus, development and transfer of ESTs has emerged as a fundamental building block in the crafting of a post-Kyoto 2012 global regime for climate change resilience. In this context, the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been the subject of increased attention in the climate change discussions since the Bali conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2007. Different conflicting views and positions have emerged pointing to the role of IPRs in either facilitating or hindering the transfer of ESTs. The dissemination of ESTs from developed countries to developing countries and LDCs is a very complicated process often simplified by the argument that patent waiver for ESTs or allowing copying with weak intellectual property rights will help the developing countries and LDCs to better cope with the climate change problems. This article tries to examine the relationship between the IPRs (with special reference to patent system) and the resilience discourse with a starting point in the terms of social and ecological resilience.

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