The report, issued by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), is an annual assessment of the protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights in the United States' trading partner countries. The removal from the Watch List highlights the progress made by the country in the IP area.
The Mexican Patent Office (IMPI) has been ranked as one of the most innovative IP offices by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in its World Intellectual Property Report 2024. The report analyses how 50 intellectual property offices around the world can use innovation policies to drive sustainable economic growth.
The Latin America IP SME Helpdesk team has just published a new blog post on confidentiality agreements (CA), also known as non-disclosure agreements (NDA), in Mexico. This blog delves into the Mexican legal framework, types of CAs and NDAs, and their application in business contexts. It also highlights the particularities of trade secrets in Mexico. Enjoy the read!
Engineeringnet.be | 30/05/2024 | A European consortium will develop a prototype of a quantum computer that breaks the boundaries of current computer techniques. The European Innovation Council is supporting the project with a grant. Project leader is Politecnico di Milano.
Agence Europe | 30/05/2024 | On Thursday 30 May, the European Innovation Council (EIC) announced the launch of the third edition of its EIC Corporate Partnership Programme, which aims to support EIC-funded companies seeking to scale up by acquiring new customers and business partners. A consortium of partners, selected following a call for tenders, led by Hello Tomorrow and including Dealflow.eu and EU-Startups, will support the EIC in providing this acceleration service.
Podcast.de | 29/05/2024 | You can hear in the newpodcast episode Mali M. Baum, founder of WLOUNDGE and member of the board of the European Innovation Council (EIC) at the European Commission.
Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine | 29/05/2024 | SUBRA makes electric cables based on superconductor technology and is accelerating this work in a new EU-backed project called SUBRACABLE, which will run for two years until August 2025. Research in this article was funded by the EU’s Horizon Programme including, in the case of SUBRACABLE, via the European Innovation Council (EIC).
MENAFN -Press Releases (English) | 29/05/2024 | The France 2030 Embedded AI winning entry follows the 2023 announcement that VSORA was the recipient of $13.18 million (€12.0 million) from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Program. That funding is used for the development of its hardware acceleration solutions for AI inference, advanced signal processing and complex algorithms.
Mirage News | 29/05/2024 | The research project, led by researchers from King's College London, with partners in Munich, Zurich, San Sebastian and Utrecht, has been awarded a Pathfinder Open Grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) of nearly 4 million euros.
Zephyrnet.com | 29/05/2024 | Just a few weeks ago, Riverlane received a grant from the European Innovation Council Transition Fund to help the company advance its error decoder technology.
Bioengineer.org | 29/05/2024 | QUSTom was selected in 2022 to be part of the first call of the Pathfinder Open program of the European Innovation Council, financed by the Horizon Europe Framework Program of the European Union and the English UKRI, aimed at supporting disruptive ideas and projects with great international potential. The project has received 2,744,300 euros for its European part.
Tech.eu | 29/05/2024 | Iris.ai provider of an AI engine for scientific text understanding, has announced its latest funding round, raising €7.64 million. Silverline Capital led the funding. The European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Fund, the EIC's flagship startup grant, matched its contribution, following the Fund's previous backing in January 2023.
BioSpace | 28/05/2024 | Based in Helsinki, Finland, and with an office in Boston, the company was established over a decade ago as a spin-out from the University of Helsinki. It has funding from Lifeline Ventures, Finnish Industry Investment (TESI), angel investors, Business Finland, the European Innovation Council, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Targeted News Service | 28/05/2024 | The European Innovation Council (EIC) has awarded a Pathfinder Grant of about 3 million euros to the European consortium Quondensate. The consortium's research aims to result in a prototypical quantum computer which will overcome the conventional boundaries of standard information and computation technologies. The project is coordinated by Politecnico di Milano and partners include six prestigious universities and a world-leading company in the field of quantum technologies.
EIT Digital | 28/05/2024 | The launch of a collaboration with SPEX Capital: a ground-breaking initiative focused on invigorating early-stage ventures within the digital healthcare, med-tech, and wellbeing sectors. Thanks to strategic partnerships, it was possible to collaborate and engage on a regular basis with institutional stakeholders such as the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the European Innovation Council (EIC).
Portal GOV.SI | 28/05/2024 | Slovenia will be visited by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the European Innovation Council (EIC), Michiel Scheffer, who will meet representatives of the economy, science, research, higher education and the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Igor Papič.
TechUK | 28/05/2024 | Riverlane announced the award of a £2.1m European Innovation Council (EIC) Transition grant funded by the Horizon Europe. The grant will propel the development of a quantum error decoder capable of supporting the real-time decoding of quantum operations – a crucial step to achieving quantum advantage.
LabioTech | 28/05/2024 | Hamlet BioPharma received €300,000 ($320,650) in a grant from the European Commission (EC) in April 2023 to accelerate its bladder cancer project, bringing its total funding as part of the EIC Accelerator program of the EC to €2.2 million ($2.4 million).
Health Research Board | 29/05/2024 | Information on the Horizon Europe and the EU4 Health research programmes, including new funding calls, opening dates and upcoming deadlines.
During European Week Against Cancer, we are spotlighting several EIC beneficiaries who are making significant strides in cancer research and treatment.
