(Focus on Boao) Boao New Vision: How to protect the "creative" competitiveness of SMEs?
China News Service, Boao, April 20 (Reporter Chen Xiaoyuan) The "Intellectual Property and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" sub-forum of the Boao Forum for Asia 2021 Annual Conference was held in Boao on the 19th.
Facing the challenge of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, how to protect "creative" and strengthen intellectual property protection?
Participants believe that this can not only support the development of small and medium enterprises, but also benefit the economic recovery.
Li Baodong, secretary-general of the Boao Forum for Asia, said that intellectual property protection can help enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.
Facing the ever-changing situation of the application of new technologies and new technologies, the work of technological innovation and intellectual property protection in Asia and the world is very difficult.
The Boao Forum for Asia attaches great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights under the new situation and regards it as one of its priorities.
The forum should continue to play an active role in promoting international scientific and technological cooperation, strengthening intellectual property protection, and promoting high-quality development of enterprises.
"Small and medium-sized enterprises are the new force of national economic and social development, and they are an important force in expanding employment, improving people's livelihood, and promoting entrepreneurship and innovation." Yao Weihao, director of the Science and Technology Development Department of Peking University, said that every enterprise originates from creativity. If creativity is cultivated and nourished , It will become a kind of intellectual property, and then promote the development of enterprises, economic recovery and human progress.
Liu Hua, director of the World Intellectual Property Organization China Office, said that in the face of the epidemic, small and medium-sized enterprises play a more critical role in economic recovery, and intellectual property rights play a more critical role in creating stronger, more resilient, and more dynamic companies.
Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office, said that SMEs are an important foundation for maintaining the resilience and vitality of the market economy, a key link to enhance the stability and competitiveness of the industrial supply chain, and a favorable support for building a new development pattern.
It is necessary to provide strong support for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and make greater contributions to the early and thorough defeat of the epidemic and the promotion of the overall recovery of the global economy.
Yu Cike, Director of the Copyright Administration of the National Copyright Administration, said that in the current era of economic globalization and the booming knowledge economy, encouraging innovation and strengthening copyright protection are the internal needs of promoting China’s own economic development, and it is also the basic for all countries in the world to promote economic development. consensus.
Looking forward to working with copyright counterparts in various countries, in order to seek new opportunities in the creative market, to open up a new pattern of innovative development in the world's unprecedented changes in a century.
Lu Zhengmin, deputy director of the Office of the National Leading Group for Combating Intellectual Property Rights and Manufacturing and Selling Counterfeit and Inferior Commodities, said that the current global situation of prevention and control of the new crown epidemic is still severe. The protection of intellectual property rights and the promotion of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises are also facing complex situations and risk challenges. As the government Departments should further improve the innovation environment of SMEs, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, severely crack down on infringements, counterfeiting, and criminal acts, promote mutual recognition of intellectual property rights, and help SMEs to actively embrace the technological revolution. The majority of SMEs should also insist on innovation-driven and further strengthen core Competitiveness, while strengthening the awareness of brand and rights protection, to ensure an invincible position in market competition. (Finish)