WIPO Awards for Indian Inventions

Category Name: Applied Sciences

Foundation Year of Award: 1971

Award Features: Silver Medal, Gold Medal

Award Periodicity: Biennial

Award Recipient Category: Individual(M/F)

Announcement Time: Special ceremony organised once in about two years.

Objective: To encourage inventions which are appropriate to the needs of developing countries.

Criteria: The invention should be either an original product/process or an improvement on present product/process so as the increase utility of the product/process by enhancing consumer advantage like reducing cost/effort of the uses/weight or volume or by improving performance / accuracy / reliability/ safety/life versatility etc. The invention should have been successfully tried out in practice.

International:(Country/ Brain Gain): National