About

Mission

TIP’s mission is to foster innovation and creativity through the better use of intellectual property and its alternatives.

In advancing its mission, TIP has the following vision of intellectual property:

• Context is everything: To understand intellectual property, it is critical to appreciate the ways that people actually use it and the governmental and non-state institutions that are responsible for it.
• Intellectual property should be of benefit to all: Intellectual property is a public policy tool that can be designed to serve the objectives of all.
• One size does not fit all: Intellectual property systems should be adapted to the diversity of economic and cultural realities within communities, countries and fields of creativity.