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24 February 2020

From February 25 to 26, 2020, the regional seminar “Intellectual Property in the Contemporary World: New Challenges” will be held in the Victoria Olymp Hotel (Calgary Hall) in Minsk.

The event was organized by the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, the National Center of Intellectual Property, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the BelBrand Association.

The aim of the seminar will be to discuss modern issues of education and training in the field of intellectual property; cooperation of science and industry branches; practices and problems of valuation and accounting of intellectual property in the Republic of Belarus, as well as the issues of protecting intellectual property rights and data security in the context of global digitalization.

The event will bring together WIPO representatives, experts from Belarus, Poland, Kazakhstan, Russia and Slovenia.

Michal Svantner, Director of the Department for Transition and Developed  Countries (WIPO), will present the report “WIPO Activities in the Context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”.

Being one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations, WIPO contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by providing Member States with specific services that enable them to use the intellectual property system to foster the innovation, competitiveness and creativity that are needed to achieve these goals. Intellectual property is one of the key incentive for innovation and creativity, which, in turn, is the key to successful achievement of sustainable development goals. Only with the help of human ingenuity will it be possible to develop new solutions that will eradicate poverty, increase agricultural sustainability and ensure food security, defeat diseases, improve education, protect the environment and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy, increase labor productivity and strengthen economic competitiveness.

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