Beijing Zhonguancun pays attention to green IP

2009/07/30

Green IP will be the highlight of the next step development of Zhongguancun. Days ago, Zhongguancun IP Promotion Bureau held a salon and invited related scholars and enterprise representatives to discuss it.
  
The Director of ZHongguancun IP Promotion Bureau Xu Zhengxiang said, developed economies take the lead of the economic development from a strategic point of view, and deploy green technological competition. The topic of this year's World Intellectual Property Day is "Green Innovation", China should institute a set of effective IP system to promote the technical development for the solutions of Green Innovation.
 
"China made great contribution in environment protection in recent years, but the economic benefit made by IP wasn't very big." said the General Manager of Zhongguanzun International Environment Protection Industry Promotion Center, for example, China has less IP in the field of solar energy and wind energy. "It is important to promote the development of green technologies and IP in China."
 
However, the domestic researchers and entrepreneurs are not very active in IP application because the costs of application and maintenance and risks.

The professor of Beijing University of Technology Liu Yuan suggested that, Zhongguancun can try to carry out pilot projects on green IP, and organize an industrial and technological union to make some authentications.

                                                                                                Source: IPR in China