Global Challenges for Innovation in Mining Industries

Alica Daly is an experienced IP professional, currently working as a Senior Policy Officer in the Division of Artificial Intelligence Policy of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Prior to her time at WIPO, she spent ten years working at IP Australia. Her most recent position there was as its first Head of Patent Analytics. During this time, she was responsible for co-authoring a number of reports published by the Patent Analytics Hub. David Humphreys is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and former Chief Economist at Norilsk Nickel and Rio Tinto. David has written and lectured extensively on the economics of the mining industry, authoring over 200 articles and papers on subjects ranging from commodity markets, trends in the mining sector, resource availability, sustainable development, Russian mining and the impact of China on mining, to national minerals policy. Julio Raffo is Head of the Innovation Economics Section at the Department for Economics and Data Analytics of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). His research interests include the economics and metrics of innovation and intellectual property, with a particular focus on their intersection with socio-economic development. Giulia Valacchi is based in the Department for Economics and Data Analytics of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Before joining WIPO, she worked for the Centre of International Environmental Studies as a Research Assistant in the Sinergia Project. Her research interests include innovation, technology diffusion, climate change and environmental economics.

'This book uses patents as a proxy for innovation to offer a comprehensive examination of the challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned in various countries, as well as at the global level. As such, it will be essential reading for policymakers as well as company decision-makers in the sector.' Tom Butler, Former President and CEO International Council on Mining and Metals

• 1. Global challenges for innovation in the mining industries Alica Daly, David Humphreys, Julio D. Raffo and Giulia Valacchi; 2. Recent trends of innovation in the mining sector Alica Daly, Giulia Valacchi and Julio Raffo; 3. Mining foreign direct investments and local technological spillovers Bruno Casella and Lorenzo Formenti; 4. Innovation in mining global value chains: implications for emerging economies Michiko Iizuka, Carlo Pietrobelli and Fernando Vargas; 5. The role of transport-related innovation in the mining sector Francesco Dionori and Maryam Zehtabchi; 6. Environmental regulations in the mining sector and their effect on technological innovation Maxwell Andersen and Joëlle Noailly; 7. Global trends of innovation in the mining sector: the role of commodity prices Alica Daly, David Humphreys, Julio Raffo and Giulia Valacchi; 8. IP use and technology transfer in the Brazilian mining sector Domenica Blundi, Ana Claudia Nonato da Silva Loureiro, Sergio Medeiros Paulino de Carvalho, Marina Filgueiras Jorge, Felipe Veiga Lopes, Gustavo Travassos Pereira da Silva and Vitoria Orind; 9. Innovation and IP use in the Chilean copper mining sector Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Juan José Price; 10. The miner act of 2006: innovating for safety and health in US mining Andrew A. Toole, James Forman and Asrat Tesfayesus; 11. Innovation in the Canadian mining sector Baharak Courtney Doagoo, Elias Collette, Sean Martineau, Amira Khadr, Marc Neville and Mazahir Bhagat; 12. Recent trends of innovation and IP use in the mining sector in Australia Rohan Amburle, Alma Lacken, Emma Francis, Deanna Trainham, Greg Maloney and Catriona Bruce.