Symposium on creativity and the promotion of inventive activities

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SYMPOSIUM ON CREATIVITY

A ND THE PROMafiON

OF INVENTIVE ACfiVITIES

Beijing, October 10 to 14, 1988

jointly organized by
the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and
the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA)

in cooperation with

the State Science and Technology Commission of China (SSTC)
and the China Association of Inventions (CAD
and with the assistance of
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
INVENTORS' ASSOCIATIONS ORGANIZATION
(IFIA) (WIPO)

SYMPOSIUM

ON CREATIVITY AND

THE PROMOTION OF INVENTIVE ACTIVITIES

jointly organized by

WIPO and IFIA

in cooperation with

the State Science and Technology Commission of China (SSTC)

and

the China Association of Inventions (CAI)

and with the assistance of

the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Beijing, October 10 to 14, 1988

GENEVA

1989
The four stamps on the cover page were issued in 1953 and represent scientific instruments developed in ancient

China. namely :

a compass, made during the era of the Waning States (3rd century B.C.) :

a seismoscope (132 A.D., the East Han Dynasty) ;

a device for measuring distances (the Jin Dynasty, 3rd century A.D.) ;

an armillary sphere (astronomical device) (Ming Dynasty, 1437 A.D.) .

WIPO PUBLICATION

No670 (E)

ISBN

92- 805- 0219- 0

ewiPO 1989
FOREWORD

The present volume contains the texts of the papers and
other relevant information presented at the Symposium on
"Creativity and the Promotion of Inventive Activities" which
took place in Beijing, China, in October 1988, and serves as a
permanent record of the stimulating exchange of views which
took place in that Symposium.

The Symposium was organized jointly by the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the International
Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA), in cooperation
with the State Science and Technology Commission of China
(SSTC) and the China Association of Inventions (CA!), and with
the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP).
It was held in conjunction with the General Assembly
of IFIA ans the Beijing International Exhibition of Inventions,
at which three WIPO Gold Medals were presented to three Chinese

inventors for "Outstanding Invention," "Outstanding Woman
Inventor" and "Outstanding Young Inventor."

Over 125 participants from 32 countries attended the
Symposium which examined five topics, namely, evaluation of
human qualities necessary for invention, how to encourage young
people to be creative, how to encourage inventors in enterprises
and R&D centers, how government institutions and inventors
associations can make better known the intellectual property
system to inventors and potential inventors and how to create a

favorable environment for inventiveness, particularly in rural
areas.

I should like to take this opportunity to renew WIPO's
thanks to the China Association of Inventions, and in
particular to its President, Mr. Wu Heng, for the excellent
organization of the Symposium and to the speakers who presented
papers.

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Arpad Bogsch
Director General
World Intellectual Property Organization

Geneva, March 1989
TABLE OF CONTENTS

page

Opening addresses

Dr. Arpad Bogsch, Director General of the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 7
Mr. Clarence Feldmann, President of the
International Federation of Inventors
Associations (IFIA) 13
Mr. Li Xu E, Vice-Chairman of the State Science
and Technology Commission of China (SSTC) 15
Mr. Wu Heng, President of the China Association
of Inventions (CA!) 19

Conclusions of the Symposium 23
List of participants 33
List of keynote speakers and panel members 45

Presentations

Evaluation of the human qualities necessary for
inventions:

by Stuart McDonald
Honorary Fellow (City University of London) and
Reader in Economics (University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia),

and Yuan Zhangdu
Vice President,

Shanghai Society of Synetics.

49

75

How to encourage young people to be creative:

by Ronald Versic
Chairman, Youth Inventors's Committee,
Council of Dayton (Ohio),

and Ma Chenglin
Vice President,

Inventors

Jilin Polytechnic University.

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99
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CREATIVITY AND THE PROMOTION OF INVENTIVE ACTIVITY

How to encourage inventors in enterprises and
R&D centers:

by Masakazu Yokoyama
Manager, Training Center of the Japan Institute
of Invention and Innovation (JIII),

and Guo Shuyan
Vice Chairman, State Science and Technology
Commission, Vice-President, China Association of
Inventions.

111

127

How government institutions and inventors
associations can make better known the
intellectual property system to inventors
and potential inventors:

by Erich Hausser
President, German Patent Office,

and Gao Lulin
First Deputy Director General,
China Patent Office.

135

155

How to create a favorable environment for
inventiveness, particularly in rural areas:

by Magdalena Villaruz (Mrs.)
President, Women Inventors Association of the
Philippines (WIAPI), and President,
SV Agro-industries Enterprises Inc.,

and Zhang Lian (Mrs.)
Director, Department of Communications,
Association of Inventions.

167

China

177
Opening address

by

Dr. Arpad Bogsch, Director General,

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Excellencies,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It gives me great pleasure to be present here today,

Beijing,

in

for the opening of the Symposium on Creativity and the

Promotion of Inventive Activities, which has been organized

jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization

and the International Federation of Inventors'

(IFIA),

(WIPO)

Associations

in cooperation with the State Science and Technology

Commission of China

Inventions (CAI),

(SSTC) and the China Association of

and with the assistance of the United Nations

Development Programme

Allow me,

(UNDP).

at the outset, to express the greetings and the

deep appreciation of the World Intellectual Property

Organization to our Chinese hosts.

a long standing friend of WIPO,

First, I greet Mr. Wu Heng,

the principal architect and one

who can truly be said to be the founding father of the Chinese

Patent System who, since the past three years, has placed his

vast knowledge and experience at the service of inventors as

the first Director General of the Chinese Patent Office and now

as President of the China Association of Inventions.

I also express my greetings to Mr. Gao Lulin, the

representative of the Director General of the Chinese Patent

Office, and through him to Mr. Jiang Minkuan, Vice-Minister of

the State Science and Technology Commission of China

the Director General of the Chinese Patent Office.

(SSTC),
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Our greetings and appreciation also go to Mr. Guo Shuyan,

who combines the important function of Deputy Chairman of the

State Science and Technology Commission of China

which the Chinese Patent Office is placed,

(SSTC) under

with the function of

Vice-President of the China Association of Inventions.

I should like also to express our thanks to the members

of the Secretariat of the China Association of Inventions, who

all have worked hard and long to make this Symposium such a

success and our stay in Beijing a memorable event.

Now, I would like to pay tribute to the International

Federation of Inventors' Associations

Mr. Clarence Feldmann,

(IFIA), to its President,

and to his associates who have also

worked much and well for the success of this Symposium.

It.is

a pleasant coincidence that we have among us today the two

former presidents of the International Federation of

Inventors's Associations, Mr. Wallin and Dr. Ware, who both

also put their talent to the success of our past two joint

WIPO-IFIA conferences in Stockholm, in 1986, and in Geneva, in

1984.

Our thanks, through Mr. Morey, Resident Coordinator,

go to the United Nations Development Programme

also

(UNDP) for its

strong support and assistance to WIPO's development cooperation

program and, in particular, its program for the promotion of

invention and innovation in developing countries. It is to the

financial assistance of the UNDP that we owe the presence among

us today of some 14 representatives of developing countries

from Asia.

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Opening address by Dr. Arpad Bogsch

Ladies and Gentlemen,

A few months ago,

{Cote d'Ivoire)

last June, WIPO organized in Abidjan

the first African Regional Conference on the

Promotion of Innovation at which representatives of inventors'

associations, governmental authorities and research and

development institutions from 23 African countries discussed

how to make a better use of the existing inventive capacity in

each country and at the regional level. On that occasion,

African Federation of Inventors' Associations {AFIA)

the

was

formally established.

The present Symposium is the first meeting of the kind

organized in Asia.

It is also the third worldwide joint

manifestation organized by WIPO and IFIA in the framework of

our cooperation for the benefit of inventors. These joint

WIPO-IFIA meetings represent an excellent opportunity to

discuss specific aspects and problems related to invention and

inventive activity, to exchange opinions and experience and to

draw the attention of both WIPO and IFIA to certain questions

which, from the point of view of inventors, should be studied

or dealt with within the framework of the international

cooperation in the field of industrial property.

I therefore welcome not only the inventor� and the

representatives of these associations--some 20 associations-­

but also the presence in this room of representatives of

governments and official institutions from several countries.

Their presence proves once again the interest that governmental

authorities show for inventive activity and for inventors.

I warmly welcome all the participants in the Symposium,

many of whom have come from very far-distant countries.

represent inventors' associations,

They

governmental authorities and