IP Bridge, Inc. (Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, President Shigeharu Yoshii) (IP Bridge) participated in “Intellectual Property Business Congress (IPBC) Asia 2016” (organized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM)) in Shanghai on December 4th to 6th as a Sponsor. IP top managements and innovation promotion leaders of many global leading companies and research institutes, CEOs of famous IP service providers, IP investors and legal professionals including lawyers and patent attorneys participated in this event. The number of participants was more than hour hundreds (400). A lot of panel discussion were arranged to discuss “Maximizing IP value in Asia”.

 

　Director responsible for Innovation Division at IP Bridge, Satoshi Konno presented as a moderator at one of the panel sessions where he and other speakers from Singapore, Malaysia and Thai shared their views of the current status and strategies for open innovation in these countries together with their case studies.

 

　

 

【Topic】

IP and open innovation in fast growing markets

【Moderator】

Satoshi Konno, Innovation director, IP Bridge

【Speakers】

Sidney Yee, Executive vice president and head of incubation and start-up management, Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*STAR)

Suracha Udomsak, R&D director and head of technology business group, SCG Chemicals Co, Ltd.

Siva Kumar Ramanathan, Chief strategy officer, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

 

　IP Bridge continues to contribute the development of IP fields as a global opinion leader. Furthermore, we contribute the development of healthy growth of industries by promoting a global innovation though IP commercialization.

 

【About IP Bridge】

　At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We’ve worked with our investors, including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan – a unique partnership between 26 major corporations and the Japanese government – to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. And our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

　We’ve worked with leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large, high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents and growing, including patents in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.

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