Intellectual property talent is the talent to discover, protect and motivate talent, as well as the talent to stimulate innovation, lead innovation and guarantee innovation. It plays an irreplaceable role in the development of our intellectual property enterprise and is a vital force that needs to be specially nurtured. The state council's opinions on accelerating the construction of intellectual property power in the new situation (hereinafter referred to as " the opinion " ) suggest strengthening the capacity of intellectual property professionals. According to supin, the second generation of intellectual property masters and the dean of the institute of intellectual property of chongqing polytechnic university, the opinion provides a clear direction for the development, use and evaluation of intellectual property talent in a variety of areas, including the building of disciplines, the training of talent, the introduction of talent, the recruitment and detection of talent, and the system of job-level evaluation. It is a “compulsory course” for the country's workforce of intellectual property professionals。
Suping informed journalists that, as early as the early 1980s, when the country's intellectual property rights system was established, the relevant government departments and institutions of higher education had begun training and training. After more than 30 years of accumulation, a large number of intellectual property talent emerged as a driving force in the development of intellectual property. According to the data, by the end of the twelfth five-year plan, a national intellectual property workforce of over 150,000 people had been formed, including more than 20,000 in administration and law enforcement, more than 60,000 in business and services, and 10,000 in higher education and research institutions, which is twice as high as at the end of the eleventh five-year period. The number of intellectual property practitioners in our country now exceeds 500,000。
“ignoring the achievements of our intellectual property development institutions, greater attention is paid to the problems of the intellectual property professional workforce.” in contrast to the rapid growth of the intellectual property workforce in recent years as a result of the rapid development of the intellectual property industry, in particular the number of professionals working in enterprises, services, such as the management of intellectual property, patent information services and patent value assessment, some of the institutions of higher education still lack the capacity to develop intellectual property, the relative delay in the development of disciplines, the development of law-oriented theories and the difficulty of developing a complex mix of scientific, technological, economic, managerial and legal skills that meet the needs of society, particularly in the areas of corporate intellectual property and intellectual property services, which are now sorely needed for social development. In addition, a national intellectual property talent evaluation mechanism has not yet been established, which has contributed to a number of problems, such as the precariousness of the intellectual property workforce, the slow growth of talent and the difficulty of its mobility。
“the opinion attaches great importance to such salient issues as the lack of high-level intellectual property talent and the absence of mechanisms to use intellectual property information to identify and evaluate innovative talent.” suping stated that, as the goal of building a strong intellectual property nation was set up, there was a growing demand for intellectual property information analysis, intellectual property assessment, and internationalization of intellectual property rights, especially at a higher level of expertise in intellectual property laws and regulations, familiarity with international rules, and higher professional and practical skills in intellectual property rights. In addition, we do not yet have access to intellectual property information to find innovative talent, often through one-way recruitment or referral by interested persons. Using more direct and intuitive criteria such as papers, subject funding, project disclosure, etc., to evaluate innovative talent, even if introduced as an indicator of evaluation such as patents, it is often simply a quantitative substitute for quality and does not really reflect the actual level of innovation of high-value, core patent inventors。
The opinion addresses the above issues by proposing practical initiatives to strengthen the intellectual property discipline, strengthen the introduction of intellectual property talent, optimize intellectual property talent evaluation and optimize the intellectual property talent environment. Strengthening intellectual property disciplines will contribute to the development of intellectual property skills in higher education, both in terms of teacher level, curriculum planning and professional development. The addition of intellectual property-related professions or orientations in management and economics has facilitated the emergence of intellectual property rights from their original jurisprudence and their greater integration into the economy and management, and the emergence of a truly complex cross-cutting discipline that has a real impact on industry and the economy. Strengthening professional master's degree education in the direction of intellectual property will help universities to develop practical intellectual property talent that is truly relevant to society's needs and that will be useful.” suping stressed that the effective functioning of intellectual property talent depended on a good environment and sound incentives. In the light of the macro-direction given in the opinion, the system of evaluation of intellectual property professional qualifications and levels is being actively promoted and improved, and the intellectual property talent is being fully mobilized through various incentives, so that the intellectual property talent can be used “to the best of its abilities” in order to realize the value it deserves and to make a new and greater contribution to accelerating the building of a strong intellectual property nation. (intellectual reporter wang woo)
