Conversations at the Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Interface: Understanding the Needs of Singapore's Innovation Community

“Conversations at the Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Interface: Understanding the Needs of Singapore’s Innovation Community” by Mark Findlay, Ariffin Kawaja, Ong Li Min and Sharanya Shanmugam, and supported by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and the Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA).

The objective of this Research Project is to understand the perceptions of key stakeholders concerning regulatory stimulation at the IP/AI interface. This report aims to present the findings from a series of focus group discussions with four groups of stakeholders representative of the AI ecosystem, namely (1) AI practitioners; (2) In-house counsel of companies utilising AI; (3) Legal practitioners from law firms dealing with intellectual property and AI technologies; and (4) Policymakers from ministries and statutory boards involved in regulations or the enforcement of IP.

With this knowledge, policymakers will be better able to harmonise positive regulatory potentials, those of IP in particular, for the commercialisation and integrity of AI-related innovations to be more sustainable while balancing the needs of the public and innovators via a healthy, open and competitive market for ideas.

CAIDG wishes to emphasise the important team effort in the complex and creative task of drawing together the data on which this report relies. Selecting and approaching possible participants with an eye to a balanced and informed sample population that could actively address the central research questions was no small task. Co-ordinating ethics approval, curating the structure of the focus groups, overseeing the focus group flow, determining important data take-aways and briefing the progress of the research exercise relied heavily on the effort and dedication of our colleague Alicia Wee. She has not been noted in the report as the final form of words were not her responsibility, but the report could not have been constructed without her.

Links: Report and Executive Summary