The World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO, together with the organization “Invent Together” organizes webinar lasting for two days about the gender gap in the field of intellectual property in the European region that is held on May 31 to June 1, 2022.
This webinar shall enable the gathering of all the interested parties which are active in the ecosystem of innovations, with the aim to raise awareness about the existence of this problem. One of the aims of the webinar is to perform quantitative and qualitative estimations of the present condition, as well as to discuss the policies and other activities that need to be enforced in the process of achieving the gender equality in the domain of this field also.
In the course of the webinar, two panel discussions shall be organized. During the first panel discussion, the importance of creating policies for the overcoming of the gender differences in the field of intellectual property shall be discussed along with the inclusion of women in the ecosystem of innovations. The second panel discussion shall emphasize approaches and methodologies used by the economists in the intellectual property offices in the European region, and it shall discuss also the challenges in identification and analysis of gender misbalance in the field of intellectual property.
Get to know more and apply for the participation at the WIPO site.