WIPO hosts Conference on Open Innovation: Collaborative Projects and the Future of Knowledge (22-23 January 2014) | Knowledge Ecology International

"The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will host a 'Conference on Open Innovation: Collaborative Projects and the Future of Knowledge' on 22-23 January 2014 at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The origins of this conference on open collaborative development models is predicated upon Recommendation 36 of the WIPO Development Agenda which states: To exchange experiences on open collaborative projects such as the Human Genome Project as well as on intellectual property models. Project CDIP/6/6 REV endeavors to implement Recommendation 36. This conference is the fourth phase of WIPO's implementation of Recommendation 36: The organization of an Expert Meeting to exchange best practices on open collaborative projects such as the Human Genome Project, the European Commission’s Open Living Labs Project, the Prize Proposals submitted by the Governments of Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia and Suriname to the WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing, and other private firms experiences such as InnoCentive, the Merck Gene Index and Natura. ..."