Ukraine Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Regulatory Review
This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the World Bank’s Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector Recovery a...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/133701509628796923/Ukraine-Intellectual-property-and-technology-transfer-regulatory-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28830 |
| Summary: | This report is one of four analytical
pieces on Ukraine’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem
developed by the World Bank’s Ukraine Technical Assistance
on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial
and Enterprise Sector Recovery and Growth Trust Fund. The
review presents an in-depth analysis of Ukraine’s
intellectual property system regarding its support to
technology transfer and commercialization of publicly funded
research and development. The analysis attempts to identify
regulatory and framework impediments for the
commercialization of publicly funded research and recommends
reforms and policies that could improve the framework
conditions for intellectual property (IP) and technology
transfer (TT). The analysis is based on available legal,
regulatory, and policy documents and information from
secondary resources as well as qualitative interviews with
stakeholders. The review finds that academic and publicly
funded research in Ukraine rarely reaches the market due to
its inherently basic research orientation; its lack of
relevance to local industry needs; low capacity and demand
for research by the private sector; legal, institutional,
and administrative hurdles; weak culture of research
commercialization; and limited incentives for
commercialization of research results. Moreover, technology
transfer offices and intermediaries are yet to be |
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