This just came in, via the International Policy Network:

You may be interested in reading this report prepared to the World Bank by the National University of Singapore titled Singapore as an Innovative City in East Asia: An Explorative Study of the Perspectives of Innovative Industries (April 2005).

The report examines the Singaporean innovation model and focuses also on its IP environment. The authors acknowledge and describe the importance of IPRs to Singapore. The authors also find some interesting perceptions gaps between the high-tech and research-intensive industries, which address [sic][attach] great importance to IPRs, and the Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS), which consider IPRs to be less important to their activities. In order to enhance the innovative activities of the latter they suggest, among other things, to promote Singapore as a regional intellectual property hub – including development of encourage the development of skills for IP and legal documentations, setting up an IP Academy (which was done in January 2003), and providing incentives for IP creation and exploitation. The also believe that positioning Singapore as an IP management centre will allow it to attract royalties from Singapore registered patent holdings. There is currently a similar initiative to do so in Ireland.

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Dr. Meir Perez Pugatch (MSc., Ph.D.)
University of Haifa
IP Policy and Commercialisation of Knowledge Assets
80 Achad Haam St., Tel-Aviv 65206, Israel
Tel: 972-3-6299294, Fax: 972-3-6204395
Website: http://lecturer.haifa.ac.il/showen/865
Email: meirp@pugatch.co.il

posted by James DeLong @ 7:58 AM | International

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