Anecdotal evidence suggests Conceptual Study on Innovation, Intellectual Property (i) The WIPO Secretariat should hold discussions that innovation is taking place in and the Informal Economy presented to the eleventh internally and with the Member States to elucidate the informal economy. Yet little session of the Committee (CDIP/11/INF/5) and available potential further involvement in promoting the project is known about how intangible at: outputs and supporting further similar work within other assets are generated in the Member State countries. informal economy and how they Three country studies on Ghana, Kenya and South are appropriated and monetized. Africa were presented to the CDIP at its thirteenth (ii) The WIPO Secretariat should engage with relevant The project offers to provide a session. institutions and bodies to seek ways of ensuring that better understanding of impact monitoring and measurement is carried out and fed innovation in related sectors and Country studies available at: back to the Member States. the nexus between IP and the informal economy. ; (iii) In to further ensure sustainability, those Member States that hosted the country case studies should ; and disseminate the studies as widely as possible within their own countries and advocate for further work to be continued in this arena. (iv) Future projects should ensure that the budget is sufficient to successfully tie up all project outputs in, for example, a final project workshop. (v) The CDIP should ensure that unclearly worded Development Agenda Recommendations should be interpreted by the Committee in a way that gives the Secretariat an appropriate direction to allow for effective project design and implementation. (xxii) Developing Tools for Access to Patent information Phase II – DA_19_30_31_02 Recommendations 19, 30, 31 – BRIEF DESCRIPTION MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS AND OUTPUTS MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS BY EVALUATORS
Anecdotal evidence suggests that innovation is taking place in the informal economy. Yet little is known about how intangible assets are generated in the informal economy and how they are appropriated and monetized. The project offers to provide a better understanding of innovation in related sectors and the nexus between IP and the informal economy. Conceptual Study on Innovation, Intellectual Property and the Informal Economy presented to the eleventh session of the Committee (CDIP/11/INF/5) and available at: Three country studies on Ghana, Kenya and South Africa were presented to the CDIP at its thirteenth session. Country studies available at: ; ; and (i) The WIPO Secretariat should hold discussions internally and with the Member States to elucidate potential further involvement in promoting the project outputs and supporting further similar work within other Member State countries. (ii) The WIPO Secretariat should engage with relevant institutions and bodies to seek ways of ensuring that impact monitoring and measurement is carried out and fed back to the Member States. (iii) In to further ensure sustainability, those Member States that hosted the country case studies should disseminate the studies as widely as possible within their own countries and advocate for further work to be continued in this arena. (iv) Future projects should ensure that the budget is sufficient to successfully tie up all project outputs in, for example, a final project workshop. (v) The CDIP should ensure that unclearly worded Development Agenda Recommendations should be interpreted by the Committee in a way that gives the Secretariat an appropriate direction to allow for effective project design and implementation. (xxii) Developing Tools for Access to Patent information – Phase II DA_19_30_31_02 – Recommendations 19, 30, 31 BRIEF DESCRIPTION MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS AND OUTPUTS MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS BY EVALUATORS
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