wipo director-general daren tang: china's innovations are increasingly emerging in the field of science and technology
2024-09-15
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china youth daily client news (china youth daily·china youth network intern reporter jia jiye reporter zhu caiyun) recently, the world intellectual property organization (wipo) released the preliminary report of the "2024 global innovation index (gii) report". the report shows that china has 26 of the world's top 100 science and technology innovation clusters, exceeding the 24 in 2023, ranking first in the world for the second consecutive year.
in this regard, world intellectual property organization director-general daren tang said in an interview with the media during the third "belt and road" intellectual property high-level conference held recently that the above ranking data shows that china has paid great attention to scientific research and industrial innovation, and this trend will continue. "this also means that in the future, china will pay more attention to growth factors such as scientific and technological innovation."
deng hongsen has watched the kunqu opera "the peony pavilion". "this is a sample of chinese culture created by ancient chinese artists." he took culture as an example and said that invention and creation have long been part of chinese civilization. today, china's innovation not only appears in the fields of culture and tradition, but also increasingly in the fields of science and technology.
"ideas can change the world." deng hongsen pointed out that china's contribution to the world's intellectual property cause is that it demonstrates the idea that "developing countries or emerging economies can shape the global intellectual property ecosystem."
over the past 50 years, the number of intellectual property applications filed by china at home and abroad has grown rapidly. in the mid-1990s, when china first joined the world intellectual property organization's patent cooperation treaty (pct), the number of international patent applications under the framework was only more than 100 per year; in 2023, this number exceeded 69,000, ranking first in the world. "this shows that emerging economies and developing countries can also effectively use the intellectual property system," said deng hongsen.
during the interview, deng hongsen repeatedly emphasized the importance of exchanges and cooperation to intellectual property protection and innovation, and fully affirmed the role of the "belt and road" cooperation initiative as a link in international exchanges and cooperation.
daren tang believes that the belt and road ip high-level conference is an important platform for promoting global ip dialogue. he pointed out that the conference brings countries together to share practical experience, exchange ideas, renew friendships and strengthen connections, "which is very important in today's world because we need to jointly respond to challenges."
in the view of daren tang, "how to transform scientific research results into practical products and services" is a major challenge faced by many countries. the world intellectual property organization is willing to cooperate with china and other countries to, on the one hand, improve the awareness of some countries about intellectual property rights, and on the other hand, create more learning opportunities. daren tang introduced that the world intellectual property academy (wipo academy) can provide training in technical and practical intellectual property skills.
"intellectual property itself is not an end, but a means to achieve an end." deng hongsen said that the purpose of intellectual property is employment, investment, business growth, and ultimately economic, social and cultural development.
source: china youth daily client
