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NCP Board member – Takayuki Sumita

Takayuki Sumita is a Secretary-General at the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, Cabinet Offices since July 2017. In this role, he is responsible for nationwide IP strategy, including national branding and promotion.

He was born in 1962 and graduated from Tokyo University (1985) and Graduate School for Foreign Service, Georgetown University (1993). After joining MITI (currently METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) in 1985, he engaged in various tasks including policy planning and trade negotiation, especially on intellectual property, innovation, IT, and FTA.

As Director of the IP Policy Office in METI, he promoted intellectual assets-based management to encourage companies to correctly recognize and to best utilize their own intangible assets in order to create the utmost value from their business model.

He also served as the chairman of the World Intellectual Capital/Assets Initiative (WICI) from 2009 to 2013, when he heavily contributed to formulating the new business reporting framework of ‘Integrated Reporting’.

Karmen Jelčić , Pirjo Ståhle, Waltraut Ritter, Eunika Mercier-Laurent, Sladjana Cabrilo, Paola Paoloni

Women initiatives flourish – Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Leadeship, Women in Technology Women in ICT…
However, a majority of women in business – SE Europe, rural areas or women entrepreneurs lacking higher education – are still unaware of the role and value of intangibles / intellectual capital for their business and thus miss the opportunity to manage it effectively for improved value creation, competitiveness and sustainable growth.

The NCP women task force group was founded in aim to enhance the visibility of NCP through collaborative actions and projects related to women and IC. We are at the stage of dynamic definition of women contribution to the current EU (and world) challenges.

Each member comes from a different European country, and brings in different perspectives on the position, opportunities and difficulties of women in business enabling unique insights and synergies.

The first event will be “café philo” at the Open Innovation 2.0 https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/open-innovation-20-conference-2016
Some topics for discussion will be given shortly. Your suggestions welcome.

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The annual winter meeting of the NCP will be held in Montpellier on 5-6 March 2015.
For more information and registration contact eunica [at] innovation3d.fr