This episode is brought to you from the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. 

Julio Raffo and Elodie Carpentier, Head of the Innovation Economy Section of the Department for Economics and Data Analytics at WIPO, and postdoc research fellow at WIPO respectively, are my guests on the show today. 

Join us for a discussion around WIPO’s diverse range of projects, what their research has shown about the impacts of war, COVID, and climate change on the evolution of innovation, and what WIPO is doing to hasten the pace of the slowly closing gender gap in the innovation space! 

In This Episode:

[00:50] Introducing WIPO and today’s guests, Julio and Elodie. 

[02:17] The diverse range of projects that Julio is involved in as head of the Innovation Economy Section of the Department for Economics and Data Analytics at WIPO.

[03:28] What Elodie’s role as a postdoc research fellow at WIPO entails. 

[06:13] Some key findings that are highlighted in the 2022 edition of the World Intellectual Property Report. 

[09:55] Two possible explanations for the decrease in green patenting worldwide. 

[11:25] The gender gap in the innovation space and why it is problematic.  

[12:51] Action that WIPO is taking to help close the gender gap.

[14:35] WIPO’s approach to collecting information around gender disparities. 

[17:15] An overview of the WIPO initiatives that promote gender equality and diversity in the innovation space.  

[19:01] How WIPO measures changes in the gender gap. 

[20:28] Topics of discussion that will be covered at the symposium that Julio has been invited to attend. 

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