Strategy Development for Knowledge Transferin Asian Academic Community (Intellectual Property and Human Resources)

Background

• The recent government policy in many Asian nations heavily weights to IP(ie. Intellectual Property Strategy Program of Japan)
• Development of Asian technologies (Rapid increase of the number of patent applications and dissertations)
• Development of open innovation (ie. Active international technology transfer, R&D activities by Japanese corporations in non-Japan Asia)

The importance of the Asian technology intellectual property strategy

Objectives

Construction of the IP norm/rules with cooperation between Asian groups generating knowledge (academia):

1. Leadership in Asian technology community in developing human resources and community network that can better discuss IP strategies in the region
2. IP norm/rules in Asia focusing on a balance of adjusted interests of the community, much less so in the conventional, enforcing arguments

Goal

Develop an academic community of science and technology in Asia (China, Korea, Vietnam and India etc) of distinguished academicians (about 100 people) by 2010
->Concretely we aim to establish, for instance, Asian IP Society like IPAJ( Intellectual Property Association of Japan).

• First sub-panel theme
  Human resources formation of the technology community with the common topic relating to university-industry collaboration (business opportunities based on IP, transparent and fair technology transfer market, IP information exchange, etc.)
• Second sub-panel theme
  IP literacy education of scientific technicians and rearing of the Asian IP talents for the next generation
• Third sub-panel theme
  Human resources formation of the technology community that can discuss the common IP topic related to life science and biotech (the guideline regarding patent right use of the research method)

Tentative Development Roadmap of the Asian technology community

	Entire activity Japanese Representative Komiyama Hiroshi President of Tokyo univ. Project plan executive office IP association of Japan, CCR the univ. of tokyo		Actibity of sub-panel
2006	Develop and manage website	Kick off (establish primary organization in Japan)	Activity of sub-panel 1-4
2007		Extraction of key contacts in the Asian network
2008		Inaugural Asian IP workshop	Review and reorganize sub-panel (if required)
2009
2010		Int'l Conference of IP Strategy Development in Asia Second Asian IP workshop Establishment of the Asian IP society