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Author:  World Intellectual Property Organisation .  Licence: CC BY 4.9 .  Source: WIPO Knowledge Repository Jane Lambert The World Intellectual Property Organisation ("WIPO")  has recently published its Global Innovation Index for 2026.  This is an annual ranking of 139 countries by their capacity for and success in innovation.  The United Kingdom came 6th in that ranking in 2026 as it did in 2025.  The countries above it were Switzerland, Sweden, the United States of America, South Korea and Singapore.   One area in which the UK has done well is in deep science startups.   According to  Press Release 2026/959 , there have been more than 30,000 such enterprises since 2020.  The USA accounted for 12,752, China 3,466 but the UK came in third with 2,133. Anyone wishing to discuss this article may call me on 020 7404 5252 during UK business hours or send me a message through my contact page at any time.

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Today is World IP Day , an international festival of innovation and creativity to celebrate the entry into force of the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization  on 26 April 1970. The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO")  is the UN specialist agency for intellectual property with responsibility for administering most of the world's intellectual property treaties , formulating future policy for the protection of intellectual assets  and resolving intellectual property disputes .  The WIPO has 193 member states  each of which is encouraged to celebrate World IP Day.  Particulars of those celebrations are posted to the World Intellectual Property Day Events Calendar . The United Kingdom is contributing 6 events this year: IP With Guy Fox on 18 April 2021 The Scottish Bar's 13th World IP Conference  organized by the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh on 23 April 2021 Leeds Cent...

Standard youtube Licence Jane Lambert Cities have been motors of innovation and creativity throughout history,  Think of Periclean Athens, renaissance Florence, enlightenment Edinburgh and Silicon Valley.  Every year, the WIPO (the UN specialist agency for intellectual property) publishes a ranking of science and technology hotspots.   The list is compiled using the following methodology: "Inventors listed in patent applications under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), spanning the years 2014 to 2018.  Authors listed in scientific publications in the Web of Science’s Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and covering the same period.  The geocoding of inventor and author addresses and the use of density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to the geocoded inventor and author points." The above film shows the top 10 clusters for 2020.  From a British perspective, it is disappointing that there are no British clusters i...

Jane Lambert In Resources for Inventors and other Startups in Northwest Wales   5 Feb 2019 NIPC Inventors Club I mentioned the Menai Science Park ("M-SParc") at Gaerwen in Anglesey and funding from the Development Bank of Wales . I did not, however, discuss other funding opportunities. Coinciding with the science park's first anniversary, M-SParc's Enterprise Hub will hold a pitching event known as "Pitch Perfect" in conjunction with Be the Spark  on St David's day between 17:00 and 19:30.  The organizers describe this event as "an evening of opportunities to pitch, chances to wow secret investors, the tools to vote on other pitches, and get feedback on your idea. It's not just for those who want to pitch; this will be an event you don't want to miss." According to the Eventbrite card, there will be three pitching opportunities: "FLASH PITCH - Two pots of funding up to £1,000 are available ON THE NIGHT for you...

A putative descendant of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree Jane Lambert Baroness Thatcher  may be Grantham's most famous (or, depending on your politics infamous) daughter but Sir Isaac Newton  was indisputably its greatest son. Although Thatcher was by no means in the same league as Newton she was also a scientist. To celebrate its scientific heritage and in particular Newton's theory of gravitation Grantham is holding a science and arts festival known as Gravity Fields between the 24 and 28 Sept 2014. There will be all everything from rocket science for 2 to 5 year olds to building quantum computers with Professor Danny Segal of Imperial College in the Science Festival  and Douglas Hollick's Goldberg Variations  to Chasing the Eclipse   a new ballet by Chantry Dance Company , the only professional dance company in Lincolnshire. Now science, the arts and technology are the hallmarks of civilization but people wil...