World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Global Awards 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Global Awards 2025. Every 12 months the WIPO Global Awards have fun small companies, begin-ups and college spinouts that leverage Intellectual Property (IP) backed innovation and creativity in an distinctive method to realize enterprise targets and enhance society.

The WIPO Global Awards are celebrating your achievements, particularly specializing in:

• Transforming analysis and concepts into profitable business ventures
• Achieving enterprise progress by way of IP-pushed methods
• Developing improvements that contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Benefits

• Tailored mentorship for commercialization of improvements and creations.
• Exclusive entry to WIPO assets.
• Global visibility and recognition.
• Access to the awards ceremony and different networking occasions in Geneva, Switzerland. Travel bills lined.

Eligibility

For SMEs

Open to all SMEs situated in not less than one among WIPO’s 193 Member States and assembly the next situations:

• It is a registered enterprise entity. Proof of registration is required.
• It has not more than 300 staff and as much as $15 million of whole annual gross sales.
• It is a holder of not less than one registered IP proper.
• It is exporting its services or products to not less than one nation.

For Startups

Open to all startups situated in not less than one among WIPO’s 193 Member States and assembly the next situations:

• The startup is a registered enterprise entity with a authorized existence of not more than three years. Proof of registration is required.
• It has not more than 50 staff.
• The startup has an modern services or products related to IP rights.
• The startup has submitted not less than one application for the registration of 1 IP proper and/or is the holder of not less than one registered IP proper.
• The startup is affiliated with a enterprise assist group, akin to an incubator, an accelerator, or an analogous entity. Proof of affiliation is required.
• The startup has affirmed its engagement with not less than one business buyer, and/or has accomplished a enterprise sale, and/or secured one investor.

Evalaution Criteria

• Strategy and IP Portfolio: Show how your innovation/creation and technique work collectively. What makes your services or products really modern? Who are your goal clients, and the way do your IP rights (patents, logos, and so on.) assist what you are promoting targets and future progress?
• IP Culture: Show how IP is embedded in your organization’s DNA. Do you might have formal IP insurance policies? Are staff skilled on IP? How do you establish and defend new innovations or creations?
• International IP Strategy: How will your IP technique aid you increase globally? Have you thought of the completely different IP legal guidelines in your goal markets? What are your plans for registering, implementing, and licensing your IP rights internationally?
• Impact for a Better Society: How are you making the world a greater place? Does your innovation/creation contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals? How does it create constructive social influence?

Application

Interested corporations can apply by way of the on-line application obtainable in six languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to WIPO Global Awards.