Interview: Ron Marchant, former head of the UK IPO
26 July 2012
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Peter Leung, Hong Kong
Ron Marchant, the former chief executive of the UK IP Office, talks to Managing IP about his experiences working on innovation and IP policy in emerging markets, and the rich untapped IP assets he sees in places such as the former Soviet republics
What have you been up to since leaving the IP Office?
Since retiring from the UKIPO, there have been two projects that I spent a good bit of time on. First, I was asked to join the board of a small Scottish public corporation called the Intellectual Assets Centre, which helps businesses derive value from their IP.
I was there about four years, and the Scottish government decided to fold it back into the government rather than run it as a separate company. That was a really interesting experience for me; I had been a civil servant all of my life so it was beneficial to see things from the business perspective and gain some experience there.
Second, I was approached by Michal Svantner of WIPO’s Division for Certain Countries in Europe and Asia to do consulting work on emerging economies. The Division works on innovation and intellectual property...
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