Sustainable Development Goals and Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property (IP) is a critical incentive for innovation and creativity, which in turn are key to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) success.
Stories of how individual inventors, companies and other organizations find solutions to social, economic, health and environmental challenges are a powerful reminder of our collective capacity to achieve the SDGs and the role that IP rights play in this.
The theme of World Intellectual Property Day 2024 campaign is IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity. Visit the campaign webpage to explore how intellectual property encourages and can amplify the innovative and creative solutions that are so crucial to building our common future.
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Mapping Innovations: Patents and the Sustainable Development Goals
This WIPO patent analytics report sheds light on the intersection of patent activity and the SDGs, revealing the latest patent trends and providing crucial insights into the impact of IP in advancing global sustainability efforts.