Finally arrived from the second day of the event organized by CITTRU and IPKN “Intellectual Property Startegies in Bioscience”.
The most interesting thing was valuable presentation of Mr Alexander Wurzer who showed how many factors need to be considered when we think of the Intellectual Property as a tool for commercialization of the innovative products or services. Really good piece of economy, law and technology issues put in easy way. From the macro-point of view this presentation helped me to understand that the patent system shall issue only patents of the very high quality, what is necessary for proper valuation of the intangible asset behind the patent (its like a gold coins and money- have look at the article about the Copernicus-Gresham law on Wikipedia).
At the end of the day we took part in the discussion about the problems that Poland face today. We identified some of them at different levels, but the final findings were rather positive – especially due to Maciej Czarnik representing CITTRU, who stated that the first step has been made – there is an incubator in which nine new start-ups have their seats.
What was missing, in my opinion, is the problem of functioning of the legal system in Poland (intellectual infrastructure) and some mental factors, still residing in people who used to live in communism, where collaboration and sharing in order to obtain win-win situation was unknown. It’s just an observation from my talks with young scientists and businessman.
So what I would recommend ?
- better European patent system (cheaper, faster, hi-quality patents)
- better then now R&D incentives (aimed also at small players)
- building network of connections with potential investors and the pharma industry
- education efforts to make the people belive in the common vision of success
