The Global Intellectual Property Alliance is a non-profit that works on IP awareness campaigns, IP education programs and helps collaboration between public and private bodies. It helps enhance access to millions of unused IPs. Startups can use these IPs to build products faster and cheaper. Speaking to SustainabilityNext, Prof. Gupta said Indian entrepreneurs and start-ups in the sustainability space and other domains can blend this patented knowledge and inventions with due acknowledgement.
“Indian researchers can feel encouraged to access data in the open source and expand the public domain. Policy makers can use this database to look at sunshine and sunset sectors, and use it while supporting new research and innovations.”He notes that grassroots innovators can also use these to fertilize their imagination.
Prof. Gupta’s co-founded GIAN (Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) has been documenting grassroots IPs since 1997, which GLIPA started in 2022. It has been creating a database of grassroots innovations with the hope that businesses and startups could pick them up and scale them. With Prof. Gupta joining GLIPA, access to millions of global unused patents could become easier.
Professor Anil K Gupta is a visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, after teaching there for four decades, and at IIT Bombay. Ph.D. (Management), MSc. Biochemical Genetics; Fellow, NAAS, WAAS, & INSA; Founder, The Honey Bee Network, National Innovation Foundation, SRISTI and GIAN, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, 2018-21
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Anil Gupta’s previous articles published in SustainabilityNext
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India Needs Inclusive and Innovative Reforms in Real Estate Markets
Let’s Announce More Prize Money for Solving Problems
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