【WJO’s Events & Activities】Lecture and Workshop at Aoyama Gakuin University

On 1 October, 2014, Mr. Okamoto, a Counsellor (Acting Head) at the WIPO Japan Office (WJO), gave a lecture on IP Advantage at Aoyama Gakuin University’s Graduate School of Business to students from different developing countries that are studying in the Strategic Management and Intellectual Property Rights Program (SMIPRP), an English-based Graduate Program. After the lecture, Mr. Okamoto, Mr. Jonah Asher, Associate Research Officer at the WJO, and Ms. Momoko Iwahashi, Administrative Assistant at the WJO, promoted the IP Advantage database, which is a compilation of successful case studies on the utilization of intellectual property from around the world, by conducting a workshop utilizing case studies from the database.