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Capacity building programme · India

ज्ञान · नवाचार · जन · सतत भविष्य

Ideas deserve protection. The planet deserves the technology.

Since 2010 we have worked with inventors, farmers, artisans, students and institutions so that knowledge created in India is documented, owned and used for a sustainable future.

Capacity building programme · India
Established
2010
Areas of focus
16
Membership classes
06
Legal status
Registered charitable non-profit, India

Our charter

Vision

Towards an innovative and sustainable society.

Mission

To provide education, training and technical support to inventors, traditional-knowledge holders, students and institutions — and to build the awareness that turns knowledge into protected, usable innovation.

Values

Right knowledge, right action, right time — in service of a value-based, sustainable society.

Four pillars, sixteen areas of work

Read the full programme list
01

Intellectual property & innovation

Patents, trademarks, copyright, designs and geographical indications — from first disclosure to filing, and from filing to commercial use.

02

Sustainable technologies & environment

Identifying, testing and promoting eco-friendly technologies, and working on the technology legislation that helps the people who build them reach the institutions that can scale them.

03

Traditional knowledge & biodiversity

Documenting traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and folklore with the communities that hold them, and protecting plant varieties and biological resources.

04

Capacity building, youth & education

Training, workshops and seminars for institutions, including awareness on internet governance and tech policy; internships, chapters and publications for the students who will file the next generation of Indian patents.

The FIRSTIP letter

A monthly note on IP practice, sustainable technology and the work of our chapters. No more than one email a month.