Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

A conference on “Protection issues of intellectual property in innovative development” was held today at Heydar Aliyev Center.

The conference was held within the framework of the Innovation Week organized by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies together with the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and the UNESCO Information for All Program (IFAP).

Chairman of the Board of the Intellectual Property Agency Kamran Imanov, in turn, stressed that innovative development and intellectual property constitute unity. He also noted that the position set forth by President Ilham Aliyev at the Davos Economic Forum – “Our future lies in government support for innovation, technology, good governance, transparency and entrepreneurs” was taken as the basis for activities in this direction.

Providing detailed information on the indicators of Azerbaijan in the field of protection of intellectual property rights, Kamran Imanov stressed that our country is a leader in the CIS on these indicators.

Director of ANAS High Technologies Park, Ph.D in Economy Nazim Shukurov spoke about the mechanism of commercialization of the results of scientific work.

The conference continued its work with reports and discussions on the protection of intellectual property and copyright in the digital environment, the commercialization of research results, open data and rights to use them, issues of approval of intellectual property on new technologies, obtaining patents in the field of high technologies, intellectual property protection mechanisms and problems in electronic commerce, etc.

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