Date: September 29-30, 2025
Theme: Sustainability
Locations: Gothenburg Sweden (Essity HQ + Clarion Hotel Draken)
Website: https://cip-net.com/cip-forum-2025/
Sustainability is a conundrum. To achieve balance and stability, one must constantly innovate and change. To stand still is to fall behind. Whether we focus on environmental, economic, or social sustainability, a world of heterogeneous needs and interests can only be squared by moving from a static, zero sum competition for what exists to a dynamic, positive sum competition for what can be. This is why IP is critical for sustainability, because it both incentivizes investment in innovation and facilitates collaboration. To succeed, IP thinking must move beyond only protecting and blocking, to be understood as a building block to support the development of future partnerships, innovations, and markets. IP is the imperfect, but necessary tool to activate the global innovation economy to solve the world’s innovation challenges, but it’s up to us to make it work.
Join us at CIP’s 25th Anniversary event, where we will discuss how IP creates the foundation for innovation and strategic openness as a key capability for competitive advantage, national competitiveness, and geopolitical collaboration toward a more sustainable world.
