The Theme Salon of the international standard "Innovation Management - Intellectual Property Management Guidelines"

I was honor to be invited by Ms. Fan Zhang (张帆) (Vice-President, IIPA (Secretariat of SAC/TC554/SC2- Innovation Management Subcommittee)) to be one of keynote speakers in the Theme Salon of the international standard "Innovation Management - Intellectual Property Management Guidelines" (《創新管理 - 知識產權管理指南》國際標準的主題沙龍) on 2^nd Jun 2023 in the venue of MUST Industry-University-Research Demonstration Base, Zhuhai MUST Science and Technology Research Institute. 

Before the meeting, we stayed in the VIP room and I gave my book for Extenics and Best Practice Guideline for Startup to Ms. Fan Zhang and Prof. Li Jin (李瑾, 院务主任，珠海澳科大科技研究院).

In the beginning, Mr. Huang Zhongjian (黃中堅 - 橫琴粵港澳深度合作區經濟發展局科技和人才處處長) gave an opening remark.

Then Prof. Jiang Zhihong (姜志宏- 澳門科技大學副校長) gave welcome speech.

The first keynote speaker was Ms. Fan Zhang (张帆) and her topic entitled “Interpretation of ISO 56005 – IP management” (創新管理 - 知識產權管理指南 ISO 56005 國際標準解讀). Firstly, she mentioned the global innovation index and China ranked 11^th and she said training for innovation management as system engineering. 

Then she briefed the history of ISO 56005 development and it is initiated by China since 2016 and published in Nov 2020. 

After that Ms. Zhang encourage to include IP strategy into innovation management. 

Finally, she briefed how to employ IP into innovation strategy for business growth. The relationship among business strategy, innovation strategy and IP strategy were explained within organization. 

I was the second keynote speaker and my topic named “Introduction to Innovation Development in Hong Kong and the Promotion of Extenics”. Firstly, I briefed the quality and innovation development in Hong Kong.

Then I introduced the practice of cooperation between university and incubators in Hong Kong and using CityU and HKSTP as example to enhance the technology transfer and new industry development through nutrient startups. 

After that I briefed HKSQ TID funded project for startup. We performed online survey 150 startups and selected 50 of them for in-depth interview. After that we developed a practical guideline for good management practices for startups in which separated into four parts and they are quality management, risk management, financial management and information security.

Finally, I briefed three key innovation methods from Russia, USA and China.

The China original new discipline named “Extenics” was introduced at the end.

The third keynote speaker was Dr. Yi Zaicheng (易在成 - 澳門科技大學法學院副教授) and his presentation was “Cross-border IP Standards Dispute Resolution Initiative” (跨境標準必要專利爭議解決倡議).

Firstly, Dr. Yi briefed the three concepts on cross-border, IP and dispute using some real case for explanation.

Finally, he mentioned the definition of tangle, handling of conflict and suitable laws for solving such problems. Lastly, he showed some useful links for further study.

The fourth keynote speaker was Mr. Yan Sheng (嚴聖- CEO of investment company) and his presentation title named “Corporate Innovation and Intellectual Property Management from the Perspective of Financing and Listing” (融資與上市角度的企業創新與知識產權管理).

In the beginning, Mr. Yan mentioned different information and statistics to analyze the listing company information and most of them failed reasons were listed.

And the he briefed the analysis report for startup listing process and demonstrated some examples.

Finally, he explained how this analysis enhanced the startup company listing probability.

The last keynote speaker was Dr. Liu Heng (劉恆) and his topic was “Discover and Achieve Scientific Entrepreneurs” (發現並成就科學企業家)

Dr. Liu briefed his different projects and some of them were necessary by China. 

Lastly, he mentioned the innovation ecosystem from research to listing.

The last part of theme salon was panel discussion. Prof. Li Jin (李瑾) chaired the panel and asked different questions for them.

(Left: Prof. Li Jin, Ms. Lo Choi In (羅彩燕 - 澳門特別行政區立法會), Ms. Fan Zhang (张帆), Ms. Zhang Qiuyue (張秋月 - 珠海識的產權保護中心負責人) and Prof. Li Liang (李良 – MUST))

During Q&A, I had one suggestion and one question for the panel. I suggested Macau SAR could nominate experts into ISO technical committee so that we got the first-hand information to promote new standards. My question is how to nutrient talent who know science as well as law for IP writing. My suggestion was supported by Ms. Lo Choi In and Ms. Zhang Fan. Ms Zhang Qiuyue and Prof. Li explained how to train up IP expert. Ms. Zhang shared large company employed three teams of people and they included Law, Science and Marketing. If for training one people for three skills, they would find a PhD and then training their IP through project that assigned as project manager. But it needs long training time (~5 years).

At the end of the salon, I thanked my friend Mr. Leo Choi to drive me into the custom. 

A little bit traffic jam we met when back to Macau from Zhuhai.

I arrived the custom building and back to Hong Kong.

Reference:

ISO/TC 279 - https://www.iso.org/committee/4587737.html

New - 知識產權國際標準·園區行（粵港澳大灣區站）- https://www.must.edu.mo/news/51691-article0603105734

20220616: ISO/TC 279 Innovation Management Virtual Meeting - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/06/isotc-279-innovation-management-virtual.html