The Licensing Executives Society –Arab Countries (LES-AC) in cooperation with Asharqia Chamber organized “Managing Intellectual Property (IP) in an Open Innovation Environment” workshop on April 18, 2009 at the Chamber’s premises in Dammam City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
The workshop aims at qualifying a group of experts in the field of licensing and technology transfer, to provide the proper environment for technology transfer in the KSA and the Arab region.
“This event is the beginning of cooperation between the Society and the Chamber in order to raise awareness about the importance of protecting Intellectual Property Rights and encourage investment in research and development (R&D),” Renad Al Noubani , LES-AC manager said.
The one-day event focused on improving the quality of both IP management and open innovation initiatives with a particular concentration on the overlap and synergy that can be obtained when done thoughtfully.
The participants discussed the following issues; how managing IP and conducting open innovation are inter-related; the steps of finding and integrating open innovation technology with the help of IP databases to increase the quality of projects and decrease access time to market, how the geographic distribution of IP enables businesses to develop and first commercialize their products.
Targeted groups were R&D experts, business development specialists, general managers, managers and CEOs.
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