The CPMT service is integrated with an English search interface and can be used for obtaining the English full text (including claims and specification) from a searched result (by previous human translation).
See the screenshots at http://www.cnpat.com.cn/430homepage/guidehome.html and then start by choosing “Patent Search and Machine Translation” from the homepage of China Patent Information Center (CPIC) at http://www.cnpat.com.cn/.
Cost pressures, the need to tap global talent, and growth opportunities in emerging markets has led Western pharmaceutical companies to shift substantial manufacturing and clinical-trial works to India and China, according to a new study. Big pharmaceutical companies like Merck, Eli Lilly and Johnson and Johnson are now counting these two countries for advanced research and development, the study sponsored by the Ewing Marion Foundation said. Indian and Chinese scientists are rapidly innovating and creating their own intellectual property as a result of Research and Development activities, the report entitled 'The globalization of innovation: Pharmaceuticals. Can India and China Cure the Global Pharmaceutical Market".
In 2006, 5.5% of all global pharmaceutical patent applications (WIPO PCT applications) named one inventor or more were located in India, and 8.4% in China. This had increased fourfold from that in 1995. Through detailed interviews with executives of 16 pharmaceutical firms in China and India on their business models, value-chain activities, partnerships and technology capabilities, the researchers concluded that Indian and Chinese companies are making strides in most of the lucrative segments of global value chains. In less lucrative segments such as preclinical testing, animal experimentation and manufacturing, Chinese firms appear to be more prevalent while India is a more mature venue for chemistry and drug-discovery activities. Domestic Indian and Chinese firms rarely have the capital and the regulatory expertise to develop a drug beyond phase II clinical trials. Their commercial development of new intellectual property therefore necessitates relationships with major multinational corporations.
The study found that India is playing a more strategic role in early discovery and its drug companies have the most experience in selling generic drugs that meet FDA standards. Companies such as Ranbaxy, Aurigene, Advinus, Nicholas Piramal and Jubilant have negotiated long-term deals with Western pharmaceutical companies to discover and develop new chemical entities. In a growing number of cases, the Indian companies share the financial risk in discovery as well as the potential financial rewards. One Chinese company, Hutchison MediPharma, has formed a similar partnership with Eli Lilly. Others are likely to follow suit as Chinese contract research organizations gain experience and Western companies trust in China's ability to protect intellectual property, said the researchers.
At a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28 percent, India is all set to achieve 539 million mobile subscribers by 2010 says a new report from ASSOCHAM and Price Water House Coopers. The report further estimates that while the rest of Asia will growth a CAGR of 22 percent, China and Africa will grow at a rate of around 14 percent during the period.
The PwC report also highlights that revenues from mobile services will increase to $35 billion by 2010, when compared to $22 billion in FY07.
According to PwC report, innovation in pricing of services and handsets were the two main factors contributing to the growth of mobile services in the country.
At the same time the report cautions operators to keep a check on the dwindling ARPU.
The report also points out operators need to devise a relevant package in offerings for the rural subscribers. The data usage in such segments is unlikely to achieve high uptake due to lack of local content on offering, says the report.
The report also mentions that the telecom manufacturing sector in the country is still lacking. It says manufacturers from Far East, particularly from China are dominating the market currently.
“Such companies are already in the third phase of their business evolution and can take advantage of not just low cost production capacities, but also a high degree of technological innovation and their own intellectual property,” says the report.
The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS), India’s first and only innovation consulting company, today released ‘The Emerging Economy Report’ in Bangalore.
This Report focuses on seven countries: India, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Brazil. These key regions of the world, the Report claims, are “experiencing Informationalization under conditions of limited or partial Industrialization.”
Dr Aditya Dev Sood, Founder and CEO, CKS, explained that this report was dedicated to understanding the new directions in which these economies and societies are headed. “In our conception, Emerging Economy refers not only to a growing economy, but more importantly to a new kind of economy. One based on information, technology and knowledge.”
“The Report offers a blueprint for innovation in Emerging Economies. It is not merely an investment advisory, but rather equips corporations working in Emerging Economies with information and insight that can drive their corporate strategy, product and service innovation processes and marketing strategy. Companies will be interested in the extraordinary range and quality of data in the Report, but also in its structure, which explains exactly how to go about the process of creating new products and services and taking them to market.”
The Report uses quantitative, qualitative and visual data to create a comprehensive picture of social and economic change that can then be used by business leaders to plan new products, services and business strategies.
The Emerging Economy Report Team from CKS’ office in Bangalore visited each country in the study, working alongside research partners there. They visited elite homes as well as urban slums, smaller towns, and even very rural and remote environments. They also talked with different kinds of regional experts to understand social and technological changes being experienced in each country. They collected technology artifacts from each country and conducted abundant photography to create a visual cultural profile of each country.
This kind of societal, visual and technology-related data is not widely available in the business world, especially for Emerging Economies. Yet it is essential for marketing specialists as well as for technology teams seeking to create new kinds of technology for emerging markets. By collecting this kind of data for several key integrated markets from different parts of the world, CKS has created an extremely valuable intellectual resource which has the potential to accelerate innovation for these parts of the world.
China emerges from this study as the world’s factory – CKS researchers discovered Chinese artifacts replacing locally manufactured goods as far away as Egypt and Brazil. On the other hand, it is important to note that it is an Indian company that took the initiative to gather this strategic data from all around the world. India’s competitive edge resides in its ability to harness strategic consumer data and apply them in its key business sectors impacting global business practices.
Selected Strategic Forecasts on Emerging Economies:
Information replaces Industrialism: Strong and sustained employment growth is seen in the service sector, while the manufacturing sector sees variable change. We see that in Brazil, where at 64%, the largest share of Brazil’s GDP comes from the service sector while the industrial sector contributes only half of that at 30.8%.
Soft Infrastructure precedes Hard Infrastructure: Soft infrastructure includes terrestrial, cable and satellite television, mobile coverage, broadband cable and wireless broadband and other informational backbone while the term hard infrastructure includes highways, roads, bridges, water supply, sewage systems and electricity. In many Emerging Economy environments, especially in rural areas, soft infrastructure is encountered even in the absence of hard infrastructure. More importantly, the installation and use of soft infrastructure can generate and attract the capital resources necessary to build the more expensive hard infrastructure. For instance, Egypt’s population enjoys a substantially high mobile coverage at 87% while 29% of its villages still have no access to safe drinking water.
Informal Economies become Networked Economies: Large informal markets for intellectual property continue to coexist with newly organized corporate retail outlets, as each caters to different consumer segments. Where once only large corporations enjoyed sophisticated long distance access, even micro-enterprises can now be connected to one another. This is because today 16% of the world’s population worldwide, lives in informal cities, which will increase to 25% by 2020 and 85% of all future employments, will be created in these informal cities.
Formal and Informal Economies interact in New Ways: The vast majority of retail outlets in Emerging Economies are in the informal sector. So far informal enterprises have not been able to aggregate. In future, we predict that informal enterprises working in the information economy will be able to aggregate into organized, formal, publicly listed corporate entities. Moreover, global corporations will come to new accommodations with the informal economy. We see this happen as 87% of computer software in the Indonesian market is shared peer-to-peer resulting in considerable concern for an organization like Microsoft.
Energy Consumption rises with GDP growth: As economies grow, they demand more energy. Emerging Economies require energy to power new transportation, housing infrastructure, public infrastructure, retail environments and service companies. There is also more capital available in Emerging Economies to invest into energy infrastructure. The ways in which new capital investments into energy are made will substantially determine the environmental impacts of this increased consumption of energy. Globally, we will see total world consumption of marketed energy increasing by 57% from 2004 to 2030, with Emerging Economies accounting for more than 65% of this demand.
Energy Innovation enables Smaller Footprints: Emerging Economies will be able to make more informed choices about their energy portfolio based on the experiences of Industrialized nations. For instance, India has 17% of the world’s population but it emits only 4% of the global greenhouse gases. China has the world’s largest population but its CO2 emissions of 2.6 thousand metric tonnes per 1,000 people is far below the 10.16 thousand metric tonnes per 1,000 people for Germany.
The strategy will have three stages: information, services and trade, said Tian Lipu, head of the office, during a conference on Tuesday.
The strategy began to be mapped out in July, 2005. So far, China has drawn up 20 methods to protect IPR, including improving the protection system, strengthening law enforcement and raising public awareness.
"The strategy is vital to fully implementing the power of the country's intellectual property rights system and to promote the development of the country's economy and science," Tian said.
Tian noted that in 2007, China saw significant progress in protecting IPR in various areas, industries and companies.
Organizations for guiding the strategy were set up in 17 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Guangdong, Guizhou, Shandong and Shanghai municipality have already issued their own strategies.
China will set up about 40 service centers for IPR protection. The centers will provide consultations and financial support for those who can't afford to pursue cases.
New regulations go into effect July 1 in China targeting distributors of unauthorized content online. The regulations, which carry a maximum administrative fine of approximately US$12,000, target search engines like Baidu, which are the backbone of online file sharing in China, as millions of users can search the various Chinese search engines for links to thousands of unauthorized copies of songs and movies.
Bloomberg.com quotes one analyst as saying that “Baidu will be under a lot of pressure to stop offering links to illegal MP3 files and may have to stop their MP3 search service.” Stop offering links to illegal MP3 files? I don’t see it. Providing links to unauthorized content is a cornerstone of Chinese search engine revenue–not just for Baidu, but for all the Chinese search engines. A $12,000 fine is not going to intimidate any search engine; they’ll just chalk it up to the cost of doing business.
But they’re painted into a corner, and effectively, copyright owners have forced their hand. These search engines want to go legit and play ball with copyright owners. But if Baidu were to give up its MP3 links, as the analyst quoted above suggests, they’d be committing suicide. The other Chinese search engines would gladly take Baidu’s share of the music search traffic, administrative fines and all. Copyright owners are not going to win a shoving match with search engines.
But, in the words of Obi Wan Kenobi, “You can’t win. But there are alternatives to fighting.” For example, search engines have offered to give copyright owners a portion of their ad revenue in return for licensing the content, but the major entertainment companies will have none of it. Some Chinese record companies–like Taihe Rye, a successful domestic Chinese label–recognize that online piracy is a fact of life and business, so Taihe has made special arrangements with Baidu to clamp down on pirate links for the first two weeks after a new release. This allows Taihe to capture the majority of its expected revenue from a release while not eviscerating Baidu’s revenue or market share. $12,000 fines won’t do it. Frankly, even bigger penalties are unlikely to have much effect. But copyright owners have alternatives.
