“there are currently 860,000 intellectual property professionals in the country. According to international practice, which accounts for 4 per cent of science and technology personnel, the number is still far from adequate, especially at the higher levels.” on 25 june 2024, the director of the personnel department of the national intellectual property authority made a statement at the regular press conference in june。
“currently, the country is deepening its implementation of innovative-driven development strategies and intellectual property-powering strategies, requiring a large number of high-level intellectual property talent. It is incumbent upon the university of qinghua to develop high-level intellectual property talent.” at the launch, professor zhou guangcheng, dean of the university of qinghua law school, responded to questions about the interface news。
Zhou guangjiang indicated that, after long exploration, the university of tsinghua had established a relatively well-developed high-level intellectual property talent development system. The faculty of law has established the llm and lld project on intellectual property, which seeks to develop academically oriented professionals, and the llm and lld project on intellectual property law, which has developed interdisciplinary, practical and internationalized professionals. The total number of doctoral and master's students in school is about 100 per year, and the number of master's and doctoral graduates is around 30 per year。
On the basis of the zhou guang power presentation, tsinghua university is also working to innovate intellectual property talent development models. On the one hand, it explores the creation of a “master of science in intellectual property” project, which crosses the disciplines of intellectual property with those of science, management and economics, so as to develop complex intellectual property talent more responsive to social needs and practices。
On the other hand, the university of tsinghua has been actively promoting the internationalization of talent development by signing an agreement with the world intellectual property organization (wipo) in november 2023 to establish a joint master's programme on “intellectual property and innovation policy” at the faculty of law, which will produce 30 students. Following the signing of the contract, the university of tsinghua and the world intellectual property organization (wipo) have been able to communicate efficiently on curricula, selection of teaching materials, teacher organization, teaching arrangements and student practice. This year has been geared towards global enrolment and the first students will be enrolled in september。
“enhanced intellectual property professional degree-building is an important element in improving the intellectual property talent development system, as well as a proactive choice to accelerate the development of high-level intellectual property talent and as a key step towards maximizing the cross-cutting advantages of intellectual property disciplines. Zhang zhi sing。
In july 2023, the national steering committee for postgraduate education in intellectual property profession was formally established. The national intellectual property agency has continued to promote the preparation of guidance documents for professional degrees, of which the basic requirements for the introduction of professional degrees in intellectual property and its master's degrees and the basic conditions for applicating a master's degree point were officially published in january of this year. Research is being organized on topics such as core courses, basic requirements for degree dissertations, mentoring programmes and the establishment of quality standards for postgraduate degrees in intellectual property。
In september 2023, the university of science and technology of china and the university of xiamen succeeded in adding a master's degree in intellectual property, and the university of xiamen began the early recruitment process. The first master's degree in intellectual property in china will be enrolled in september this year. Universities such as tsinghua university, toji university and the chinese academy of sciences continue to promote the accreditation of professional degrees. Other higher education institutions with a sound base of intellectual property personnel actively declare a master's degree in intellectual property. Thirty-two higher education institutions will be accredited in this year's new cycle of master's degrees, which will be further expanded。
