In the Science and Technology Park in Novi Sad, on Thursday, October 24, 2024, the first in the serial of six national events was held dedicated to the raising awareness about intellectual property in the development of innovations and support to small and medium enterprises, researchers and users of EU funds in the field of intellectual property. The event was held in the organization of the European IP Helpdesk, the European Entrepreneurship Network (EEN) in Serbia and the Science and Technology Park in Novi Sad.
The participants, in the course of the entire event, had the opportunity to get acquainted with the role of intellectual property rights as the means for the development of business models, strategies and manners of realization of patent protection in various business models, different support services in the field of intellectual property, but also the programs of strengthening research capacities for the realization of research results.
The most important part of the event for the participants was the panel discussion with four representatives from companies and start-ups, some of which originated from the scientific community, and they distributed their experience about the protection of their inventions by patents and other intellectual property rights, about the challenges they met that are still present in the development and financing of their innovations.
At the event, following the invitation of the organizers, the representatives of the Intellectual Property Office also participated giving their insight in the manners of realization of patent protection in the national procedures and various routes of international protection of inventions in compliance with the strategy of marketing as well as services offered by the Office in the domain of information, consultations and education in the field of intellectual property.
Agenda of the event which took place can be seen here.