Worldwide Interest in Webinar on IP Offices as Innovation Agencies

September 1, 2020

There was a terrific response to WIPO’s webinar entitled IP Offices as Innovation Agencies. 369 people registered from 65 countries with most representing national IP offices. Other participants also joined from universities, research institutes and the IP profession. In total 273 people joined the webinar.

Speakers at the online workshop, top row (L to R): Mr. Guy Pessach, Director, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Support Division, WIPO; Ms. Manda Tay, Deputy Director, Strategic Planning and Policy Department, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore; Ms. Skye Reeve, Assistant Director, International Policy & Cooperation section, IP Australia. Bottom row (L to R):; Mr. Hansueli Stamm, Chief Economist, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property; Mr. Alfred Radauer, Program Director, Management Studies, IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria; Mr. Peter Willimott, Officer-in-Charge, WIPO Singapore Office. (Photo: WIPO).

Organized by the WIPO Singapore Office, WIPO’s SMEs and Entrepreneurship Support Division and with the assistance of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, the event featured expert speakers from the IP offices of Australia, Singapore and Switzerland, as well as an expert based in Austria.

Speakers shared their organization’s journey from being a traditional process-based office to one where they actively support key facets of the innovation ecosystem through new services, tools and approaches to customer service.

Key outcomes from the session included the importance of effective integration of all “players” (both public and private sector) within the innovation arena, the value of collaboration between these entities, the significance of evaluating initiatives to ensure they are fulfilling a market need and the benefits of having an overarching strategy to guide efforts and provide direction.

The video of the webinar is available as are the PowerPoint presentations.

The webinar was organized under the WIPO-Government of Singapore MoU.