World Intellectual Property Report 2024
The 2024 edition of WIPO’s World Intellectual Property Report – “Making Innovation Policy Work for Development” – probes the intersection of human innovation, economic diversification and industrial policy and finds that the key to sustainable growth for countries is to focus policy making on developing local innovation capabilities. It documents a recent resurgence in industrial policy making, including in many developing and least developed countries, aimed at ensuring a wide and growing economic structure base and the innovation, creativity and technology required to achieve it. The Report, as well as further information, is available at: