WIPO Global Awards 2025

If you’re a small business, a start-up, including a university spinout — from tech to fashion, media, music, design, agriculture, or any other industry—and you use Intellectual Property (IP) to create value, the WIPO Global Awards are for you, because they are the UN Award for inventors and creators.


The WIPO Global Awards celebrates small businesses start-ups and university spinouts that leverage Intellectual Property (IP) backed innovation and creativity in an exceptional manner to achieve business goals and improve society. Winners of the awards will be subject to receiving:

  • Tailored 1:1 mentoring on strategies for the commercialization of IP assets, including fundraising and commercial partnership opportunities.
  • International promotion and visibility across various business audiences.
  • Attendance to the prestigious Awards Ceremony and networking events in Geneva, with travel expenses covered.
  • Access to WIPO network and resources for IP management advisory.

2024 saw two winners (out of a total of 9 selected winners) from ASEAN including Meticuly from Thailand, a company designing 3D-printed bone replacement implants and Vivo Surgical from Singapore, a company involved in creating battery-powered surgical lighting devices. We would like to continue the great performance from ASEAN companies in 2025. Finalists from other countries were in the field of agricultural technology, robotics, waste management and medical technologies.

Information on the awards and information on how to apply can be obtained at the following link: https://www.wipo.int/en/web/awards/global/how-to-apply