“From electric vehicles to lifesaving drugs, clean and green tech, to AI and digital technologies – IP can be the vehicle to turn bold new ideas into real world impact” said World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Director General Daren Tang in a video address to mark World IP Day 2024. This paper proposes a responsible intellectual property (IP) strategy (R-IPS) framework based on five exploratory case studies of sustainable companies in energy, nutrition, consumer electronics, manufacturing and water treatment sectors. These companies responsibly use IP assets to create positive social and environmental impact (or reduce negative impact), and unlock new opportunities for financial (economic) gains.
World Intellectual Property Day 2024 is highlighting the critical importance of intellectual property (IP) in catalyzing the human innovation and creativity needed for achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper integrates innovation research with intellectual property law to explore how such a systemic collaboration for sustainable innovation should be characterised, and how the intellectual property rights (IPR) system could be shaped to support it. The paper highlights that reaching sustainability objectives depends on system-level innovations; system-level innovation for sustainability calls for new forms of collaboration; current IPR regime limits systemic collaborations for sustainable innovations and new IPR system and tools are needed to facilitate systemic collaboration.
This Review supports SDGs 3, 10, and 15 by examining evidence on Indigenous People's mental health related to resource industries in settler colonial states. It shows that land is central to Indigenous people's mental health, and that land dispossession due to industrial development negatively impacted mental health in Indigenous communities.
The community-based MLMC intervention described in this paper had significant impacts on individual intake of dietary fat and carbohydrates. These dietary behaviors are important key factors related to chronic disease risk and further implementation of MLMC interventions could go someway way to improve dietary intake among Native American populations post-colonization.
This article focuses on how to expand current knowledge on the effect of messages that foster adherence to health policy guidelines among minorities.
The article focuses on gender issues in cross cultural communities.
This podcast discusses the relevance of lipid oxidation in brain activity, how work in redox proteomics helps us to understand the role of specific proteins in the development of Alzheimer's pathology, why metabolic disorders have such a major risk factor for the development of dementia. how down syndrome is a model of Alzheimer's and Dr. Butterfield's thoughts on future antioxidant strategies in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's & new therapeutic approaches. Plus advice for young people pursuing science and medicine as a career.
This Article supports SDG 3 by presenting a conceptual framework and a method to estimate cost-effectiveness thresholds for 174 countries, using public and widely available data on country-specific health expenditures and health outcomes; these findings can inform policy makers on the thresholds to consider when deciding on the allocation of health resources.
This Article supports SDG 3 by assessing the incidence of HIV and HCV infection among people who inject drugs, a population at higher risk of these infections. In this systematic review, HCV estimates came from studies in 24 countries. Pooled HCV incidence was 12.1 per 100 person-years; data for both infections were scarce, suggesting increased efforts are needed to keep track of these infections in this population.
This Comment supports SDGs 4 and 10 by reviewing the global pledges and resolutions that have been made regarding disabled children (dating back to 1946), and highlighting how the September 2023 global summit on SDGs provides an opportunity to reaffirm global commitments on early childhood development.
