
Introduction
Fide and TIPSA (Transatlantic Intellectual Property Academy) continue to join forces to organise, since the first weeks of the Covid pandemic back in 2020, a longstanding Program of Global Digital Encounters, scheduled periodically around the area of Intellectual Property, with the goal of “Re-imagining IP in an ever-changing world”.
The situation we live in has highlighted and made unstoppable something that we already knew: we are heading towards a world in which intangible assets are going to be key in a society oriented towards artificial intelligence and the data economy, where Metaverse, NFTs, Blockchain technology, Industry 4.0, Biotechnology and Bio-computing will be the keywords for the future.
So, the question is served: if intangible assets are increasingly important, how is the current Intellectual Property system duly equipped to respond to the needs of this new world? The Global Digital Encounters aim at addressing this fundamental issue with courage.
The present Publication reports on, and summarises think-tank work performed at all Encounters that took place between September 2022 and July 2023.