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Shanghai ranks 6th as global innovation hotspot city
By:Zheng Qian  |  From:english.eastday.com  |  2019-11-26 12:46

The World Intellectual Property Report (WIPR) 2019 released by the World Intellectual Property Organization recently says that Shanghai ranks 6th among the top ten global innovation hotspot cities.

Through analyzing millions of patent and scientific publication records across several decades, the report examines how the geography of innovation has evolved over the past few decades.

The international cooperative inventions created by the top ten innovation clusters account for 26% of all such inventions. These top ten cities have formed intensive domestic and international innovation networks in North America, Europe and Asia. “China already has an intensive national innovation network, and as one part of it, the innovation network in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, is quite obvious.”

(Innovation network of the top ten innovative hotspot cities)

Regarding international cooperative invention patents and scientific research papers, two important indicators for the evaluation of innovative cities by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Shanghai ranks sixth globally.

Concerning the reason why these two indicators of Shanghai have seen rapid growth, Shan Xiaoguang, Dean of the Shanghai International Intellectual Property College of Tongji University, explained that due to Shanghai's international advantages and the continuous improvement of the rule of law, business and the investment environment, the gathering of innovation factors has been accelerated and the ability to create, protect and use intellectual property has been improved.

“To build an IP center city in the Asia-Pacific region, Shanghai needs to train and introduce more intellectual property talents, and also speed up adjustments in relevant policies, ” said Shan. In his opinion, that the intellectual property major has not been included in the list of disciplines (professionals) in Shanghai’s key development areas is not good for introducing and cultivating the non-Shanghai graduates who have majored in it. Whether in the writing of a patent claim or a legal defense of a patent infringement case, intellectual property professionals are needed. With the policy adjusted, non-Shanghai students can be attracted to study IPR in Shanghai universities for a postgraduate degree so as to speed up the filling of talent gaps in this field.

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