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World Intellectual Property Day
April 26, 2008
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 IP for Small Enterprises |
Fostering Cooperation amongst SMEs
It is important that linkages are encouraged and strengthened between SMEs, R&D institutions, as well as Universities and the Government Institutions supporting the development of SMEs sector. Creation of practical national guide for teaching and training entrepreneur, is another area that requires special attention. In the national programmes on Intellectual Property for SMEs, priority should be given to development of high technology sector such as Biotechnology, Micro technology, Nano technology, etc. It would be advisable for national Ministries concerned to systematically assess the true IP related demands and needs of the SMEs by undertaking in-depth studies on a periodic but regular basis, of the situation concerning challenges faced by the SMEs in their access to, and use of IP system. This analysis necessarily has to be done on a sectoral basis, in view of heterogeneity of the SMEs of different sectors. Apart from governmental initiatives at supra national, national, regional, local and municipal levels, a number of initiatives by non-governmental and the civil society organizations are noteworthy.
International Cooperation among SMEs
International Cooperation in the SME sector in each of the G-15 countries has been growing steadily. SMEs in developing countries need to cooperate with each other and set up joint projects in order to achieve excellence and to increase their share in the world trade following the Uruguay Round. South-South Cooperation was needed to expand trade amongst developing countries. The possibility of exploiting e-commerce as a means of enhancing competitiveness also needs to be explored. The Asia-Africa Investment and Technology Promotion Centre has been set up to enhance business cooperation between Asian and African countries. WIPO has also taken a commendable initiative to include proposals on IP Protection amongst SMEs in the WIPO’s agenda. WIPO has set up a comprehensive and very user friendly Website on IP for SMEs in six languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian). The WIPO SMEs division intends to focus on the cultural industries as well as on the IP needs of SMEs in specific sectors such as agriculture, biotechnology, handicrafts, machine tools, software etc. |
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