IPOS announces more support to deepen IP competency in Singapore’s wider innovation sector

27 September 2024

On 27 August 2024, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (“IPOS”) issued a press release about extending more resources, training programmes, and advisory services to deepen intellectual property (“IP”) competency in Singapore’s wider innovation sector, including freelance creative professionals. 

There will be continued upskilling initiatives with the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy for businesses and IP professionals in the region over the next five years to use IP as a tool for sustainable growth and development. A partnership with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (“MPA”) will be extended over another three years to enhance the maritime sector’s IP capabilities, such as helping training companies and MPA develop IP strategies, and helping maritime enterprises, startups and research institutions commercialise their IP. 

IPOS will also collaborate with NTUC-affiliated association, the Visual, Audio, Creative Content Professionals Association (“VICPA”), to raise IP awareness and proficiency among creators in Singapore over the next few years, including joint efforts to: 

• promote the understanding of IP among freelance creative professionals and youth through IP awareness programmes and campaigns; 
• help VICPA members extract and enhance the IP value from their works with resources such as guidelines, best practices, case studies; and 
• equip creators to manage and monetise their IP through training programmes on IP licensing, negotiation, and commercialisation of creative works.

Reference materials 

The press release on this development is available on the IPOS website www.ipos.gov.sg.