India, Jan. 22 -- Senior patent and legal expert Dnyaneshwar Kamble has launched the Global Youth Patent Index (GYPI), a new initiative aimed at tracking and encouraging patent activity among school-age children, to bring young innovators into the global innovation ecosystem.

Kamble said the future strength of nations increasingly depends on how early they identify and protect intellectual capital rather than on physical resources alone. "For decades, we have measured innovation at the level of companies and universities, but the creativity emerging from schools has remained invisible. This is a blind spot that cannot be ignored. There are more than 250 patents registered in the name of students below class 12," he said.

The index measu...