Salaam Global Foundation organized a meeting on April 27, 2017 to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to raise awareness about how innovation could improve lives. The meeting was held in the presence of Members of the trustee board members, executive board members, committee members and experts in the field of innovation and international relations, engineering and other fields.

At the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Moayyeri talked about his experience on Iran relation with WIPO during his tenure as Iran Rep to UNOG and other international organizations in Geneva. He also mentioned that currently IP is thought in some Iranian universities as an academic major.

Dr. Ali Hakimattar saw the meeting in line with SGF and UN goals and informed on upcoming meetings to commemorate international days.

Keynote Speaker Dr. Sara Salimi presented his intervention on Innovation and IP. She explained about concepts like patent, industrial design and structured innovation and role of IP in promoting them.

Saeed Emami said one of foundation goals is proposing policies to decision makers and suggested that result of meeting to be published as a policy paper.

Mahmoud Saneipour delivered a summary of his report titled” Innovation, IP and its effects on Iran culture and economy”.

He counted suspicion about IP as a barrier made by West to prevent development of other countries as one of problems. He believed that promotion of IP in Iran needs an industrial revolution.

Ali Akbar Koohestani as an inventor described his experience in registering his invention briefly and challenges he faced.

Mehdi Saatian also described lack of commercializing cycle as a barrier for innovation.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sara Salimi

Debaters:

1- Mahmoud Saneipour, Member of SGF EB, Former Governor of Tehran Province, Former Deputy Minister of Housing and Urban

2- Dr. Alireza Moayyeri, Chair of SGF TB, Former Deputy FM

3- Mohammad Ali Hosseini, Member of SGF TB, PhD in Higher Education Administration, Associate Professor of Education Management in University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences

4- Saeed Emami, CEO of SGF

5- Eng. Ali Akbar Koohestani, Treasurer of SGF

6- Eng. Mehdi Saatian, Expert in TRIZ and Innovation

7- Dr. Bahram Yegane, Member of SGF TB

8- Yasser Salimi, Vice-Chair of IR Committee of SGF

9- Dr. Ali Hakimattar, Chair of Executive Board SGF