WIPO and DIPP sign agreement to set up innovation centres in India
The Dollar Business Bureau To set up Technology and Innovation Support Centres (TISC), the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have entered into an agreement. For entrepreneurs and innovators in developing nations like India, these TISCs facilitate access to locally based technology knowledge banks and other ancillary services, which help them create, manage and protect their intellectual property rights (IPR). Some of the services offered by TISCs include database search training, access to a repository of patent/non-patent resources and IP-related publications, retrieval of technology information, and provision of basic information on laws, management, and technology commercialisation. Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM) is the focal point for the formation of a TISC national network. CIPAM ...
Strong Intellectual Property Policy, need of the hour: Report
The Dollar Business Bureau There is an urgent need to create a strong Intellectual Property (IP) policy so that creative work and innovation are duly protected, says a recently released report. The report titled 'Benefit Sharing in a Globalized India' was released by the Strategic Partners Group (SPAG), a leading research and advocacy firm, on the occasion of the World IP Day, on Sunday. Highlighting on the need for an effective IP Rights policy the report said, “India, a country with multifarious and ubiquitous problems needs an IP environment that stimulates growth and produces a battery that maps out the design for its future progress.” Stating that the cost-effective products should be made available even to the gross-root levels, the ...
Indias policy barriers hurting imports from USA: USITC
USA's exports to and investment in India could increase by up to 66% without trade and non-trade barriers, according to a new report commissioned by the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance Bidhu Bhushan Palo | The Dollar Business Ahead of President Barack Obamas visit to India next month and amid hectic consultations on Indo-US trade, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has released a new report which claims that Indias imports from USA have remained much below potential mainly due to policy barriers in India. India runs a trade surplus of around $16.6 billion with USA, but this could shrink to a mere $2 billion, if India takes corrective steps, says the USITC in its ...
