WIPO Forum Presents Four “Game-Changers” In Innovation 03/09/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)The World Intellectual Property Organization later this month will hold a forum on innovation featuring four “world-renowned pioneers from the fields of medicine, architecture and industrial design,” as a way to bring common insights to intellectual property policymakers and stakeholders working to achieve a “balanced, inclusive” IP system. The WIPO Forum 2013, From Inspiration to Innovation: The Game-Changers will take place on 24 September, alongside the annual WIPO Assemblies, to be held from 23 September to 2 October. WIPO said in a press release today: “These four visionary innovators, each disrupting current paradigms in a quest to improve some of the most basic elements of the human experience – food, shelter, and health…. “At the forefront of policy makers minds will be how to foster a creative and enabling environment that promotes the kind of ground-breaking work done by the WIPO Forum 2013 panelists, while ensuring that the improvements lift up communities.” As presented by WIPO, the panelists are: Anthony Atala is the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. A practicing surgeon and pioneering researcher in the area of regenerative medicine, Dr. Atala is currently focusing on growing new human cells, tissues and organs, including livers, kidneys, heart valves, bone and muscle. One strategy used by his team is 3D printing. Diébédo Francis Kéré is the founder of Kéré Architecture. His first building “Primary School in Gando” in his Burkina Faso birth town was finished in 2001 and received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for its elegant architecture using basic, constructive instruments in a design that allowed for natural, cooling air flow, among other features. This creates a more comfortable building that enables students to concentrate better, contributing to an improvement in their educational advancement. Mr. Kéré’s development of local materials and techniques, through the adaptation of new technology, unites modernity and tradition, providing economic and ecological building solutions for local situations in a global context. Henry Markram is the Director of the Blue Brain Project at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is also the coordinator of the Human Brain Project, which engages biologists, neurobiologists, biochemists, computer scientists and engineers in more than 80 institutions across Europe, aims to build a complete virtual brain, realistically simulating its systems of billions of neurons. Its goals: to provide a better understanding of how the mind works, discover new treatments for brain diseases, and inspire new computing technologies. Gopalan Sunderraman is the Executive Vice President of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing, a 100-year plus old manufacturing firm based in Mumbai, India. Mr. Sunderraman is the driving force behind the corporate initiative on Breakthrough Management and Disruptive Innovation in several businesses across Godrej and the intellectual father of the “ChotuKool” cooling system, a red 45-liter plastic container that can keep food cool for days using only a 12-volt battery, drastically reducing spoilage for people living in food-insecure environments. … Godrej has created products that are environmentally superior and address critical social issues including health, sanitation and disease prevention. More information on the event is available here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "WIPO Forum Presents Four “Game-Changers” In Innovation" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.