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Asia Pacific Intellectual Capital Centre co-organises
First Global World City Conference
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with the Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, the research unit of the city government of Beijing. The conference will be held at Beijing Conference Center from September 18 to 19, 2010.
Sponsors, supporters and co-sponsors of the conference include:
- Sponsors
Beijing Academy of Science and Technology
Beijing Research Center for Science of Science
- Supporters
Beijing Municipal Science &Technology Commission
Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park Zone Management Committee
Beijing Intellectual Property Office
- Co-sponsors
Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Promotion Office
Asia-Pacific Intellectual Capital Centre
Technical Innovation and Strategic Management Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Beijing Office
Background of the conference:
This is a major drive by the city government of Beijing to construct Beijing into a world city using Intellectual Capital Management resources from throughout China (including Hong Kong SAR & Taiwan) and around the world. The target is, by around 2050, Beijing would rank amongst the World Cities in terms of sustainable development, social and economic development and fully coordinated in terms of ecology and friendliness to the environment.
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Link to Chinese front pages of the conference:
http://www.bjicc.com/index.html
Link to English front page of the conference:
http://www.bjicc.com/Html/List/list22.html
Programme and Speakers:
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Call for Papers
The conference will invite representatives from World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Union, other international organisations and experts and scholars from Germany, Britain, Australia, Belgium, Italy and China’s Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan to give keynote speeches. Other experts and scholars from Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and all those interested in the field of intellectual capital, creative industry and innovation model will also be invited to participate in this two day meeting to be held at Beijing Conference Center.
The organiser of this conference would like to invite academics and practitioners from around the world to submit papers on the featured themes of the conference, such as : innovation-driven development, world city construction and intellectual capital management . Selected articles may be published in a book to be published by the organiser. For further information, please e-mail: bjicc2010@gmail.com.
There were many attempts in Hong Kong and around the world to define “Creative Cities”, “Creative Industries”, “Creative Assets” and “Creative Economy”. Comprehensive definitions and useful analyses from a global perspective can be found in the “Creative Economy Report 2008”, prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). However, more work need to be done …
What is APICC?
Intellectual Capital (IC) is all the knowledge both tacit and explicit in a company which can be used to create value. The Asia Pacific IC Centre is at one and the same time an IC Centre for Hong Kong SAR and a link with the growing number of such IC Centres in Mainland China. The purpose of each IC Centre is to raise awareness in local businesses of the need in the knowledge based economy to identify key IC and to manage this for value.
Why was APICC Created?
Larger companies have shown since 1995 that there are great benefits to be obtained in managing the knowledge base of companies as part of the business plan. Since 2000 several countries, notably Scotland and Singapore, have put such IC Centres in place to help local companies understand the issues, raise their awareness, diagnose their position and take steps to leverage this knowledge base in order to create value. In particular the step of transforming key tacit knowledge into explicit recorded knowledge is vital in risk reduction in that it creates a recorded and systematised approach that is not dependent on one key individual but part of the company structural capital. The APICC has been created to assist Hong Kong SAR companies in this regard, to allow Hong Kong SAR to begin to catch up with the world leaders in the Knowledge Economy and to link Hong Kong into the ambitious Mainland China IC Centres Project.
APICC is a Knowledge Economy Initiative supported by:
Intellectual Property Department, HKSAR Government
http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/home.htm
Other supporting Organisations: