{"id":66779,"date":"2019-11-13T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=66779"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:25:21","slug":"india-innovation-bangalore-world-ip-report-2019-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/india-innovation-bangalore-world-ip-report-2019-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation in India and Bangalore figures in the World IP Report, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">WIPO released the World IP Report, 2019, yesterday. The press release on WIPO&#8217;s website states that millions of patents and scientific publications over decades were reviewed to arrive at its findings. At a general level, the IP Report&#8217;s findings are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Innovative activity has become more collaborative and transnational over the years, but collaborations are limited to a few large clusters in a small number of countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">69 percent of patents and 48 percent of scientific activity happens at around 30 metropolitan hotspots in China, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States of America (U.S.).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In early 2000s, 64 percent of scientific publications and 54 percent of patents were collaborative. That increased to 88 percent and 68 percent by the end of 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">International scientific collaborations increased by 25 percent, but inventor collaborations for patent filings saw a drop from 11 percent after 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Before 2000, Japan, the U.S. and Western European economies accounted for 90 percent patent activity and 70 percent publishing, but between 2015-17, this dropped to 70 percent and 50 percent as activity in other countries such as China, India and other countries increased.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Patent activity and research activity of MNCs are based out of their R and D centres based out of locations with specialised knowledge and skill.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Scientific activity is more wide spread among countries than patent activity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Two sectors are undergoing profound change: Automotive and Agricultural Biotechnology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Autonomous vehicle patent activity integrates companies from different sectors though innovation is currently being led by traditional automotive companies such as Ford, Toyota and Bosch. Companies like Google, Uber and Delphi are also among the top 50 contributors in the area, Google being among the top 10.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">China, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the U.S account for more than 55 percent of all scientific publications and more than 80 percent of all patents in agricultural biotechnology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Though Agri-Biotech innovation happens in metropolitan areas generally, it is geographically wider spread compared to other fields.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Since 2000s, collaborations between private entities and public institutions has increased. This was earlier limited to collaboration between private firms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Patents and Innovation in India<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">From the PR of the report, India does not seem to be a significant player in innovation and patent activity. However, it is noteworthy that India has been given its due importance owing to the progress made by the country during the last two decades. Activity in India finds place with respect to some aspects:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Bangalore is listed among the top ten collaboration metropolitan hotspots for collaborative research and patenting in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The report also acknowledges that India&#8217;s patent and scientific activity has grown significantly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Infosys is mentioned as a company that sources technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Indian companies do not find a mention in the autonomous vehicle research and patent activity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Nothing about India has also been mentioned with respect to agricultural biotechnology innovation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The IP report indicates an increase in collaborative research and innovation as well as patenting, which will most probably be the way forward for scientific and technological progress driven economic and social development. The report&#8217;s findings are based on patent and publication data, and do not include collaborative research and innovation through open models. When the community and open models are factored into the report, the percentage of collaborative innovation is expected to be much higher than reported.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Note: This note is based on the PR of the report, and we will write another post after reviewing the full report.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Reference<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/pressroom\/en\/articles\/2019\/article_0013.html?utm_source=WIPO+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=f7a0270d83-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_12_04_06&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bcb3de19b4-f7a0270d83-256733201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/pressroom\/en\/articles\/2019\/article_0013.html?utm_source=WIPO+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=f7a0270d83-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_12_04_06&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bcb3de19b4-f7a0270d83-256733201<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World IP Report 2019 acknowledges India\u2019s growing contribution to global innovation, particularly through Bangalore\u2019s collaborative research and patenting. While India\u2019s role is still emerging in sectors such as autonomous vehicles and agricultural biotechnology, the country\u2019s scientific and patent activity has expanded significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3907,10748,10749,10747,3859,10604,1121,3908],"class_list":["post-66779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","tag-agricultural-biotechnology","tag-bangalore-patents","tag-collaborative-research","tag-india-innovation","tag-patent-activity","tag-scientific-publications","tag-wipo","tag-world-ip-report-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140357,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779\/revisions\/140357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}