Message

While we have seen increasing importance of intellectual property (IP) with the knowledge society coming, it has been pointed out that the conventional management reaches its limitation in various industries and we strongly need more sophisticated and more effective theories and practices of IP management, as economic growth has slowed in Japan.

The arena of knowledge necessary for IP management expands in diversified management fields, not only in laws: technology, design, branding, marketing, finance and accounting, international relations etc. We need to combine the knowledge in these fields and to reconstruct IP management.

To confront this task, we established our institute under the following policies in March 2009:

1. We shall study the advanced IP management both theoretically and practically, which shall contribute to sustainable growth in the knowledge society, and shall report the achievement.
2. Our fields of study shall be management in general, which shall be inter-disciplinal: law, technology, design, branding, marketing, finances and accounting, international relations.
3. We shall provide chances especially for young researchers to publish their achievements in order to freely promote ideas of researchers and to diffuse the researches, properly responding to the transition to the knowledge society.

Furthermore, we established our advisory board comprised of IP experts around the world in August 2015. The advisory board would enhance our study on the advanced IP management from the global standpoint.

We appreciate your support very much.

Kimiaki Suzuki
Director, Towa Institute of Intellectual Property

Institute overview

Advisory board