Newswise — About 20 judges, policymakers, and enterprise executives from China are convening at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business for a unique new training program on innovation and intellectual property rights.
Berkeley's new China Innovation & Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Leadership Program is aimed at strengthening intellectual property protection and enhancing innovation in the world's most populous country. The program takes advantage of close interdisciplinary collaboration at Berkeley, with classes taught by professors from the Haas School of Business, School of Information, School of Law (Boalt), and Boalt's Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
From Oct. 9 to Oct. 18, program participants will attend specially designed courses on intellectual property rights and innovation. The program has been organized by UC Berkeley's Center for Research on Chinese & American Strategic Cooperation (CRC), which is part of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization, housed at the Haas School.
"We are pleased to assist our Chinese colleagues as they strive for a better understanding of the workings of complex intellectual property systems," says Haas School Professor David Teece, director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization. "The program will be a wonderful opportunity to share perspectives and knowledge around the design and implementation of efficient and effective intellectual property regimes."
Teece, who also holds the Mitsubishi Bank Chair in International Business and Finance, is teaching a course on the origins and role of innovation and intellectual property on the first day of the program.
Courses also will include intellectual property case studies on such topics as the Beijing Olympics developed earlier this year and completed in China this summer by graduate students from across the Berkeley campus. The case studies were overseen by Haas School faculty Henry Chesbrough, executive director of the Center for Open Innovation, and Jihong Sanderson, executive director of Berkeley CRC.
After the in-class training, the delegates will join various high-level corporate executives in a closed-door discussion Oct. 19, to be attended by Haas School Dean Tom Campbell and Richard Lyons, executive associate dean of the Haas School, Dean AnnaLee Saxenian of the School of Information, and Dean Christopher Edley of the School of Law.
From Oct. 20-26, participants will gain hands-on training as "interns" at California high-tech companies, IP management firms, law firms and United States courts.
The training comes as China faces mounting pressure from both the U.S. and European Union to crack down on piracy of software, movies and other intellectual property. UC Berkeley, meanwhile, has been at the forefront of innovation and intellectual property issues, with faculty across campus leading the charge for U.S. patent reform.
"In our research we have discovered that the Chinese public misunderstands many aspects of U.S. values and priorities, while Americans surprisingly are even less well-informed about the realities of modern China," says Sanderson. "With the program, we are creating a framework where such misunderstanding can be replaced by direct communication in order to enhance cooperation between the U.S. and China."
Tapping its strong ties to the Pacific Rim, UC Berkeley has been able to win support for the Berkeley China Innovation & IPR Leadership Program from high-level Chinese officials. Earlier this year, a Chinese delegation led by Duan Ruichun, a former top negotiator on intellectual property rights for China in World Trade Organization talks, traveled to Berkeley to sign a memorandum of understanding to initiate the program.
Future plans for the Berkeley China Innovation & IPR Leadership program call for additional training programs, workshops, summits, research, and field studies for Chinese officials in both China and the U.S.
Program sponsors who have made this new training program possible include IP VALUE; Callaway Golf; IE California; Air Products; BEA Systems; Cisco Systems; Fish & Richardson; Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; Rambus, Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group; Sybase; U.S.-China Legal Cooperation Fund; Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization; LECG Corp; and Squire Sanders.
Haas School of Business -- Leading Through Innovation
For over 100 years, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, has offered a superb management education to outstanding men and women from around the world. The School is one of the world's leading producers of new ideas and knowledge for all areas of business, and a launching point for many new businesses.
The Haas School is widely known for its diverse and talented faculty, staff, students, and alumni. They have created an innovative academic culture that stresses cooperative teamwork, entrepreneurship, a global point of view, and an emphasis on new ideas and fresh perspectives. The school's programs benefit significantly from the university's practice of interdisciplinary research and teaching, and the school's strong connections to nearby Silicon Valley. For more information, visit http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/.
Boalt Hall School of Law - World Leader in Legal Education
For over a century, Boalt Hall has prepared lawyers to be skilled and ethical problem-solvers and advocates. Boalt's curriculum - one of the most comprehensive and innovative in the nation - offers its 850 J.D. and 100 advanced degree candidates a broad array of nearly 200 courses. Students collaborate with leading scholars and practitioners working on complex issues at more than a dozen interdisciplinary centers and institutes. Under the leadership of Dean Christopher Edley, Jr., Boalt continues to have far-reaching influence on law and policy in such areas as business, economics, public policy and technology. For more information, visit http://www.law.berkeley.edu/.
Established in 1996, Boalt Hall's Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) is widely recognized for its outstanding intellectual property and high technology law program. BCLT has been named the best information technology law program in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the last nine years. As BCLT has grown, its focus has expanded beyond its intellectual property core to encompass antitrust, electronic commerce, entertainment law, biomedical ethics, telecommunications regulation, cyber law, privacy and other areas of constitutional and business law affected by new information technologies.
School of Information
The UC Berkeley School of Information prepares leaders and pioneers solutions to the challenges of transforming information - ubiquitous, abundant, and evolving - into knowledge. For more information, visit http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/
Through our Master's program, focused in five areas of concentration, we train students for careers as information professionals and entrepreneurs. Through our Ph.D. program and faculty research, we explore and develop solutions and shape policies that influence how people seek, use, and share information to create knowledge. Our work takes us wherever information touches lives, often bringing us into partnership with diverse disciplines, from law, sociology, and business to publishing, linguistics, and computer science. For more information, visit http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/.
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