Create your own World IP Day Campaign
World Intellectual Property Day is a great opportunity to celebrate the power of innovation and creativity and to explore how intellectual property (IP) supports our drive to build a better future. In 2024, the theme for World IP Day is:
IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity.
IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity.
Join us in celebrating the change makers around the world who are helping to build our common future with innovation and creativity backed by IP rights.
Don’t hesitate to use the materials we have developed for the campaign to support your own World IP Day celebrations.
World IP Day 2024 is an opportunity to shine a light on how intellectual property supports the innovation and creativity we need to create pathways to a sustainable future and meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are a blueprint for people, prosperity, peace and our planet.
Guidance notes
Additional pointers to help you create your own World IP Day campaign.
How you can support this year's campaign
Get students talking about innovation, creativity and IP
If you’re working in a school or at a university, why not develop one or a series of interactive workshops, conferences, fairs, or exhibitions (virtual and/or in-person) on this year’s theme. Create an opportunity for young people to learn about the central role the innovation, creativity and IP rights play in enabling the progress needed to transition to a more sustainable future.
Start a mentoring program
Create a space where aspiring inventors, creators and entrepreneurs can meet with experienced mentors on IP and business. Join forces with a local partner (e.g. law firm, chamber of commerce, technology hub, business incubator, or fab lab) and organize a free IP and business consultation or mentoring session for inventors, creators and entrepreneurs who want to learn more about how they can use IP to support their drive to build a more sustainable future.
Give voice to local inventors, creators and entrepreneurs
In collaboration with local inventors, creators, and entrepreneurs, get in touch with your national or local radio stations, online radios, and podcast programs and give a voice to the trailblazing inventors, creators, and entrepreneurs near you and create an opportunity for them to share how IP is supporting their efforts to support our common journey towards sustainability.
Organize a World IP Day event
Help build awareness and understanding of IP and how it can support the ambitions and goals of inventors, creators and entrepreneurs. Organize and host an event – a webinar, conference, workshop, roundtable discussion, competition, exhibition, and more. Bring together inspiring speakers and stimulate lively discussions on the central role the innovation, creativity and intellectual property play in driving the transition to a sustainable future.
Talk about #WorldIPDay on social media
Talk about World Intellectual Property Day with your friends and colleagues on social media platforms. Be sure to use #WorldIPDay and mention WIPO (@wipo on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter) when promoting your event.
Social Media Kit
Download campaign materials in eight languages from our social media kit, including visuals, social media banners, cards, and more.
Key campaign messages
- Innovation and creativity lie at the heart of human progress and intellectual property encourages and supports the innovation and creativity we need to build a better future for everyone.
- Our ability to innovate and to create will drive progress in building a sustainable future.
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a blueprint for action. With innovation, creativity, and intellectual property, we can turn that blueprint into reality. We can build our common future where people and our planet thrive.
- IP rewards people for their novel ideas and original creations and creates the conditions for businesses and others to invest in developing the new ground-breaking solutions we need to overcome the challenges we face.
- At WIPO, we believe in the power of innovation and creativity, and the power of intellectual property to amplify and sustain the positive impact of the new ideas and solutions we need to shape a better future for people everywhere and for our planet.
- On World IP Day 2024, we celebrate the change makers who are shaping our common future.