The ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC) proudly announces the release of the Public Version of the Scoping Study for the Development of the Post-2025 ASEAN IPR Action Plan and the Upgraded ASEAN Framework Agreement on Intellectual Property Cooperation. This pivotal study marks a significant step in ASEAN's commitment to establishing a robust IP landscape that aligns with the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Vision 2045.

 

This comprehensive Scoping Study, prepared in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), lays out key recommendations and action points to drive ASEAN's IP objectives beyond 2025. It emphasizes five strategic growth areas critical to ASEAN's future prosperity: Digital Economy, Green Economy, Blue Economy, Creative Economy, and the Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Economy.

 

The ASEAN Scoping Study presents recommendations for adapting IP framework across key growth areas, including the Digital Economy, with strategies for software protection, data security, and the management of emerging technologies like AI. In the Green Economy, it emphasizes the integration of IP in sustainable development initiatives to stimulate eco-friendly innovation and facilitate technology transfer. For the Blue Economy, it offers guidelines for using IP to protect and commercialize advances in marine biotechnology, sustainable fisheries, and ocean-based industries. The Creative Economy recommendations focus on safeguarding ASEAN’s rich creative industries, ensuring IP support for both traditional and digital cultural assets. Lastly, the study calls for stronger collaboration between ASEAN’s IP and STI sectors to drive research-led growth and boost technology commercialization across the region.

 

In summary, the ASEAN Scoping Study lays out a strategic roadmap with actionable recommendations to unlock IP’s transformative potential, accelerating innovation, enhancing regional competitiveness, and fostering sustainable, inclusive growth across Southeast Asia. The study emphasizes the importance of a multi-stakeholder approach, encouraging strengthened public-private partnerships and deeper collaborations with the private sector, academia, and civil society. These forward-looking strategies will play a critical role in shaping ASEAN’s collective vision, advancing the region as a thriving economic powerhouse in the coming decades.

 

The ASEAN Scoping Study for Post-2025 is now available for download here. We invite all stakeholders to explore its findings and engage in ASEAN’s journey towards a sustainable, innovation-driven, and inclusive IP ecosystem.