The Federal Government of Nigeria and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have agreed to actively deepen collaboration to turn the nation’s intellectual property into tangible financial assets, with Vice President Kashim Shettima saying the future belongs to nations that understand the dignity of the mind.
The target is to commercialise research from Nigerian universities and support the creative economy through stronger technical cooperation, deeper institutional support, and expanded capacity-building, among others.
This was disclosed in a statement on Monday as the outcome of a meeting between the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, a delegation from WIPO led by its Director-General, Daren Tang, and top Nigerian government officials at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Shettima drew the WIPO delegation’s attention to Nigeria’s unmistakable ambition, which he said was to build an “intellectual property system that serves the inventor and the investor, the researcher and the entrepreneur, the artiste and the industrialist, the farmer and the software engineer”.
