From university labs to startup breakthroughs to world-leading industries, what makes innovation ecosystems thrive?

Join the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) on Wednesday, September 23, 2:30-3:30 PM ET for a conversation on the report Idea Factories: How Intellectual Property Sustains and Cultivates Technology Ecosystems. Moderated by Safi Bahcall, bestselling author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, the webinar will open with a fireside chat with Idea Factories report author Professor Jonathan Barnett, followed by a panel discussion with Kirti Gupta, Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research and Non-Resident Expert for Renewing American Innovation at CSIS, Andrei Iancu, C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director, and Coke Morgan Stewart, C4IP President and CEO and former USPTO Deputy Director.

Together, they’ll explore how strong intellectual property rights help ideas become industries, foster competition and collaboration, support entrepreneurs, and strengthen U.S. economic and technological leadership in an increasingly competitive global landscape.

Speakers:

Safi Bahcall, bestselling author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries (moderator)

Jonathan Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California and author of Idea Factories and The Big Steal

Kirti Gupta, Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research and Non-Resident Expert for Renewing American Innovation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Hon. Andrei Iancu, Co-Chair of C4IP and former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Coke Morgan Stewart, President and CEO of C4IP and former Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office