M·CAM Executive Chairman delivers Plenary Address at Third infoDev Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Brazil

Date:  Tue, 2009-10-27

M·CAM Executive Chairman delivers Plenary Address at Third infoDev Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Brazil

October 27, 2009 – Florianopolis, Brazil –– Dr. David Martin joins The Honorable Luiz Henrique da Sliveira, Governor of Santa Catarina State, Brazil in the opening Plenary Address at the combined XIX Brazilian National Seminar on Science Parks and Business Incubation and the Third infoDev Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship assembly. This event, jointly sponsored by infoDev, World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Brazil’s Ministry of Science and Technology, SEBRAE, and ANPROTEC, convenes over 1,000 senior finance, economics, and business development leaders in a dialogue about effective enablement of innovation in the global market.

Dr. Martin’s address will focus on the re–alignment of innovation resources for the creation of ethical finance and market opportunities. Highlighting the need to deploy significant unused and underdeveloped innovations from around the world drawn from the Global Innovation Commons, awareness will be broadened on unique tools for development which enable unprecedented market engagement and enterprise acceleration.

Also at this event, M·CAM will officially unveil its Inaugural Global Innovation Commons which is being launched in a deployment partnership with infoDev. This is a compilation of hundreds of thousands of innovations which are available in the public domain due to patent expiration, abandonment, disallowance, or applicant failure to seek protection within global markets. In the fields of water, carbon–alternative energy, food and agriculture, and public health, the Global Innovation Commons serves as an immediate asset for any development or procurement effort on the planet. Using this Open Source Innovation Commons, entrepreneurs and policy makers can experience freedom to commercialize technologies which have been restricted from market access by abuses of the patent system.

In the Global Innovation Commons, all innovation artifacts (patents, research publications, government or industry sponsored research reports, and technology procurement records) have been assembled and reviewed for their legal standing in every country on Earth. These innovation artifacts have been compiled so that jurisdictions of enforcement are easily assessed to avoid any infringement in any jurisdiction. This enables a business or government to know what can be developed for domestic use only, for limited export, or for general export. Wherever possible, using abandoned patents, global freedom-to-commercialize positions are identified for unrestricted commercial use and deployment.

Each innovation artifact, together with its jurisdiction(s) of enforcement is displayed so that the user can identify the innovator, owner of record, and any other pertinent information about the innovation. Using the Global Innovation Commons, one can immediately identify both zones for commercial development and use and those zones where active patent enforcement may blockade an Open–Source derived product or service. In the image below, one can see that the country highlighted in red (the United States) is the only jurisdiction where this patent is protected. This means that all other countries are free to use the information contained in this patent with the exception of creating an infringement in the United States.

To link to Conference, please click HERE

To link to Global Innovation Commons, please click HERE

To link to Dr. David Martin’s speech, please click HERE