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Facilitating Innovation through IP Commercialization Strategy | UNECE Talk Summary

Explore the key role of intellectual property (IP) commercialization in driving economic growth through innovation. Learn about challenges and strategies for promoting knowledge transfer and IP management in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Get insights from UNECE experts on promoting innovation and strengthening linkages in emerging economies.

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Facilitating Innovation through IP Commercialization Strategy | UNECE Talk Summary

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  1. Commercialization Segment Introduction Ralph Heinrich UNECE Team of Specialists on Intellectual Property Skopje, 1 April 2009

  2. Point of Departure Innovation THE key driver of economic growth Globalization & accelerating innovation Catching-up economies need to integrate into global production networks & to strengthen innovative capacity One key: IP commercialization

  3. Broad View of Innovative Capacity Ability of a country to create globally new technology, but also, perhaps more importantly to absorb, adopt, and adapt technology from elsewhere

  4. Interactive Innovation funding, ideas, staff technical requirements ideas, customer needs Basic science, teaching Developm’t & production Applied research Market results, knowhow, staff prototypes, specifications products, processes, services Research org’s SMEs Big firms Customers

  5. Interactive Innovation • not only “science push” … • … but also “demand pull” • need for 2-way collaboration science/ industry • and between firms • … increasingly also across borders

  6. The need for active commercialization • Large differences across countries in link between research inputs and innovation outputs => implementation gap • Commercialization is not automatic, but needs policy support

  7. Existing Challenges in Innovation in EMEs • Innovation activity limited to few large firms • but even they tend to invest less than foreign firms • very few innovative SMEs

  8. Existing Challenges in Innovation in EMEs weak links between domestic & foreign firms large firms & SMEs firms and PROs

  9. Linkages Failures & Organisational Failures Leading economies: strong PROs, strong innovative firms (big and small) Focus on strengthening linkages, i.e. knowledge transfer BUT CAVEAT: Links are only as strong as the actors being linked !

  10. Linkages Failures & Organisational Failures Catching-up economies: often weak PROs and weak firms Risk of ‘linkage failures’ Support to KT needs to be balanced with support to strengthening ‘actors’ (existing large and small firms; universities and PROs)… … and support to other linkages in NIS, especially knowledge links between domestic and foreign firms

  11. UNECE ToS-IP • Survey among our experts • Focus on Knowledge transfer PROs – industry • And IPR management at SMEs

  12. GP on Knowledge Transfer Broad approach: KT rather than TT Go for LT partnerships Encourage staff mobility Create win-win: strong PROs & competitive industry Do not pursue KT primarily for revenue Encourage professional associations

  13. GP on Knowledge Transfer • Promoting training for KT professionals • Raising awareness among academics • Linking public research funding to improvements in KT • Granting to PROs default IP ownership, tied to obligation to commercialize • Improve framework conditions !

  14. Challenges of IP Managem’t in SMEs Awareness of IPRs/ Intellectual Capital Costs & complexity of obtaining formal IPRs Human & financial resources for enforcement

  15. GPs on Promoting IP Managem’t in SMEs Integrate IPR promotion into wider SME support policies Coordination & cooperation between IP offices & enterprise support institutions

  16. GPs on Promoting IP Managem’t in SMEs Awareness raising & training programs for SMEs & entrepreneurs Consulting, advisory services/ IP audits Stock taking & strategy development

  17. GPs on Promoting IP Managem’t in SMEs Tax breaks, subsidies or reduced fees for IPR protection Match-making services Model licensing contracts

  18. Issues Legislation, national strategies ? Current use of the IPR system ? Commercialization support programs ? IPR management at universities ? TTOs, incubators, spinoffs, techno-parks

  19. Issues Regional/ int’l cooperation ? Existing obstacles ? Effects of crisis? Needs for assistance ?

  20. Program International cooperation Business strategy University good practices

  21. Program National perspectives: IP offices Gov’t ministries Universities Business support organizations

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