In order to further enhance the innovation awareness and innovation capabilities of corporate scientific and technological personnel and improve the level of corporate intellectual property work, on September 10, the launch ceremony of the 2025 Jiangsu Province Intellectual Property Science Popularization and Enterprise Tour (Nantong Station) and Tongzhou District Science Popularization Month Event with the theme of "Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence" was held in Tongzhou, Nantong. More than 100 people, including relevant persons in charge of the organizer, leaders of the enterprise work, department heads and enterprise representatives in charge of science and technology associations in various prefecture-level cities, etc., participated in the event, and the online live broadcast attracted more than 4,000 viewers.
September this year is the first "National Popular Science Month" after the revision and promulgation of the "Science Popular Science Law". As one of the series of activities of the National Popular Science Month of the Provincial Association for Science and Technology, this event is guided by the Provincial Association for Science and Technology, the Provincial Intellectual Property Office, and the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, and co-organized by the Provincial Association for Science and Technology Enterprise Innovation Service Center, the Provincial Intellectual Property Protection Center, and the Provincial Association for Science and Technology Talent Service Center. It aims to empower innovation with popular science and escort industrial upgrading with intellectual property rights.
Wang Xiaofeng, a second-level inspector of the Provincial Science and Technology Association, said that intellectual property rights, as the core carrier of innovative achievements and the key element of market competition, are of great significance to promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation in our province and taking the lead in high-quality development. This event focuses on the theme of intellectual property empowering industry innovation, organically combines cutting-edge AI technology, intellectual property system, and actual needs of enterprises, so as to not only make the intellectual property concept deeply rooted in people's hearts, but also effectively apply methods for protecting intellectual property rights, providing a "methodology" and "toolbox" for corporate innovation and development, allowing everyone to deeply understand the huge potential of "AI+intellectual property". He hopes that the guests will take this event as an opportunity to use intellectual property rights to escort the development of artificial intelligence, empower industrial innovation and upgrading with artificial intelligence, and contribute wisdom and strength to Jiangsu in advancing the new journey of Chinese-style modernization.
The launch ceremony of the Tongzhou District Science Popularization Month event was held on site. Shi Xiaoyi, member of the Standing Committee of the Tongzhou District Party Committee, Minister of the Organization Department, and Minister of the United Front Work Department, said that this event is not only an important stop for Jiangsu Province's intellectual property science popularization and enterprise benefits, but also the beginning of the Tongzhou District Science Popularization Month series of activities. Tongzhou District should strengthen popular science services and empower innovative development; embrace changes in the times and improve innovation capabilities; deepen open cooperation and jointly build an innovation ecosystem. He hopes that Tongzhou District enterprises will actively participate in the national science popularization series activities, and will be both "beneficiaries" and "communicators", turning the company's innovative practice into a vivid material for science popularization; pay attention to the key role of intellectual property rights in incentivizing and protecting innovation, learn to make good use of cutting-edge tools such as artificial intelligence, continuously improve innovation efficiency, and transform new technologies into new competitive advantages and new driving force for development. Enterprises in the province can understand Tongzhou's industrial advantages and innovation environment more, carry out deeper cooperation in the fields of scientific and technological innovation, intellectual property protection, etc., and jointly build an open, coordinated, mutually beneficial and win-win regional innovation community.
Thematic teaching session was shared by Yao Wei, deputy director of the Institute of Engineering Education, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Educational Strategy, and a special researcher at the Innovation Method Research Center of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared the theme of "Innovation Methods, AI Empowerment - The Way to Continuous Innovation of Enterprises in the AI Era". He systematically analyzed the essence and value of innovative methods, started from "Why innovation requires methods", explained the core connotation of innovative methods, and focused on exploring the integration path of "innovation method + AI", providing specific ideas for enterprises to deeply integrate AI technology with their own business. With deep academic accumulation and rich practical experience in providing innovative consulting to many well-known companies, Yao Wei makes the sharing content both theoretically high and close to the actual needs of the company.
At present, AI technology not only brings innovation dividends, but also raises new challenges in intellectual property protection. How to build a matching institutional guarantee? Qi Yong, professor Zijin Excellent, doctoral supervisor, and dean of Jiangsu International Intellectual Property College, said in the theme report "AI empowers high-quality development of enterprise intellectual property rights" that innovation is the key path for high-quality development of enterprises, and intellectual property rights are the core guarantee for enterprise innovation. In the digital economy era, efficient governance of intellectual property rights, empowering technological innovation through intellectual property rights to promote high-quality development of enterprises is a strategy that enterprises need to pay attention to and actively implement. Based on his work experience, he elaborated in detail the importance of the deep integration of artificial intelligence and intellectual property to industrial development from three aspects: digital intelligence is an urgent need for the high-quality development of enterprise intellectual property, the current status of digital intelligence development of intellectual property, and the exploration of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and the thinking of empowering enterprises with digital intelligence to empower the high-quality development of intellectual property rights.
This event strengthens the awareness of intellectual property protection in the era of artificial intelligence through a combination of popular science publicity and expert teaching, and promotes the deep integration of technological innovation and legal protection, helps to create a social atmosphere that respects innovation and protects innovation. In the next step, the Provincial Science and Technology Association will continue to explore new paths for popular science publicity, promote the deep integration of intellectual property protection and scientific and technological innovation, create a good atmosphere of respecting knowledge and advocating innovation in the whole society, and inject new impetus into the development of science and technology economy in our province. (Author: Provincial Association for Science and Technology Enterprise Innovation Service Center Editor: Xie Changmei)
