Recognition step - Identify the problem

Wilson Fernando Garcia Jaraba

Student:

KARLA NATHALIA TRIANA

Tutor:

Group: 212032_34

National University Open and Remote UNAD

Valuation and Negotiation of Technology
La Guajira
2018
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2. Nowadays, new technologies are not only being developed by first world countries, but
also developing nations are working hard to research and innovate in order to be
competitive in a crowded global market. Therefore, there are intellectual property
procedures that have been established to guarantee the rights of invention, that everyone
should know.

Faced with this situation, the next problem will be discussed and analyzed throughout the
course:

"How can the protection of new technologies play an important role, hindering or
promoting the development and eradication of poverty in underdeveloped countries?"

Therefore, according to their prior knowledge, each student publishes in the forum Unit 1,
2, 3: Recognition step: identify the problem, a PDF document, answering the following
questions (a paragraph of 100 to 200 words for each a):

2.1. What are the risks that a company faces when developing a new technology?

The most common mistake is to think that innovation is only associated with high-tech
companies such as ICT or automotive, but innovation can be incorporated into
organizations in any aspect of their value chain, whatever the business they are in. devote.

2.2. Is innovation a real opportunity for the eradication of poverty in underdeveloped

countries? Why?
When we think about the concept of innovation, the first thing that comes to mind are the
great technological advances, global companies and developed countries, elements that
translate into immediate benefits for social classes with greater purchasing power and,
consequently, in the widening of the gap between this sector and the groups that live in
circumstances of extreme poverty.

2.3. Is it important for Colombian companies to protect their inventions?

Being then so important, to be registered the brand generates the company the exclusive
right to prevent third parties from marketing identical or similar products with identical or
similar brands, so that consumers do not get confused and acquire the product of the
employer that they really want and not another by mistake.

Also look on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and
answer the following questions:

2.4. What is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)?

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United
Nations System, created in 1967 with the signing of the Stockholm Convention. WIPO is
dedicated to promoting the use and protection of the works of the human intellect.

2.5. What types of intellectual property exist and how does WIPO define it?

Copyright, patents, trademarks, industrial designs, geographical indications.

2.6. What is the Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC)?

The WIPO program of technology and innovation support centers (TISC) facilitates the
access of innovators from developing countries to local information services on technology
and other related high-quality services, helping them to exploit their innovative potential as
they create, protect and manage their intellectual property (IP) rights.
2.7. What is the Inventor Assistance Program (IAP)?

The Inventor Assistance Program (PAI), an initiative of WIPO in cooperation with the
World Economic Forum, is the first global program of its kind. It links inventors and small
companies with scarce financial resources from developing countries with patent attorneys
who are willing to provide their legal aid services free of charge to obtain patent protection.