Global challenges for innovation in mining industries / edited by Alica Daly, World Intellectual Property Organization, David Humphreys, University of Dundee, Julio D. Raffo, World Intellectual Property Organization, Giulia Valacchi, World Intellectual Property Organization.
Index. List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. 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 -- 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 Joelle 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 Jose PriceOrtega and Juan Jose Price -- 1. The MINER Act of 2006 : innovating for safety and health in U.S. 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 -- Index.
Summary:
"People have been digging in the ground for useful minerals for thousands of years. Stone Age people dug for flints, Bronze Age people for copper. But the manner in which they have dug for minerals has changed out of all recognition. While early miners hacked small amounts of mineral from the ground with antler horns, some of today's mines employ 300 tonne trucks driven and scheduled by computers. Innovation lies at the heart of the story of mining. Mineral materials are the foundation of modern industrial society. They are used in vast quantities to construct the infrastructure of our lives, the roads, the power stations, the airports and our homes. They are used for the durable products which we employ within this infrastructure, the cars, the planes, the hospital equipment and the refrigerators, as well as in the machinery required to produce these things. And they are used in the sophisticated gadgets that underpin the technology economy and the security products that keep us safe. The ordinary smartphones contain no less than seventy different mineral elements"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Intellectual property, innovation and economic development
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