The Chinese are often derided for counterfeiting everything in sight, but the reality is very different. As I write this in Beijing, I’m leafing through a Chinese comic book designed to teach seven-year olds about intellectual property. In today’s China, most children are taught the importance of IP and how it works as soon as they enter primary school. Since the early 1980s, the Chinese government has been intent on creating an economy in which IP plays a fundamental role. As former Premier Wen Jiabao often said, “competition in the future is competition in IP”. ....Read More
The European IP Marketplace
Presentation from the IPBC conference in Beijing on 3rd December 2012 ....Read More
Intellectual Property: China in the Global Economy – Myth & Reality
Presentation in Singapore on 21st September 2012 ....Read More
Competitive Advantage in the Knowledge Economy: Innovation – Intellectual Property – Corporate Strategy
Presentation given on 6th February 2012 at Imperial College London Business School to the MBA IP Elective ....Read More
Intellectual Property Rights – Catalyst or Inhibitor of a Low Carbon Future?
Presentation given at IPAN on 29th April 2009 ....Read More
The Next Unseen Risk : Global Developments in IP
Presentation given at CIP Copenhagen on 8th December 2008 ....Read More
IPR and Low-carbon Technologies
In the final segment of a four-part series, Ian Harvey discusses how China can use intellectual property rights to promote the adoption of low-carbon technologies. ....Read More
Technology and IP: Problems and Solutions
In the third part of a series about intellectual property rights and low-carbon technologies, Ian Harvey investigates potential problems that may arise. ....Read More
Technology in a Warming World
In the second part of a series on chinadialogue, Ian Harvey says intellectual property rights will provide a catalyst for the deployment of low-carbon technologies. ....Read More
Myths and Legends
China is making intellectual property a mainstay of its economy. Problems remain, writes Ian Harvey, but complaints from western firms often betray ignorance and poor preparation.The obvious availability of counterfeit products in China obscures the huge progress that the country has made toward making intellectual property (IP) a mainstay of its economy. Problems remain, most of which the government is working hard to address. Some of these will take decades to truly change, but as premier Wen Jiabao has said on many occasions: “future competition in the world is IP competition”. ....Read More