New Delhi, Sept 7 (KNN) Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED) is marching towards becoming one point destination for the budding entrepreneurs & startups, said, Samarendra Sahoo, IED CEO.

He was addressing the seminar on “Role of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and MSMEs” at Institute of Entrepreneurship, Odisha organized by Intellectual Property Facilitation Center (IPFC) in association with Cell for IPR Promotion & Management (CIPAM), Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India (GoI) on 5^th & 6^th September.

He said that IPFC at IED has already started penetration of IPR awareness among the startups and MSMEs.

Speaking at the seminar, Siddhanth Chouksey from CIPAM, DIPP, New Delhi told that the IPR awareness amongst the startups, MSMEs & the students have been boosted with the active involvement of Institutions like IPFC.

He promised to assist IPFC, IED to conduct more such seminars and workshops for the startups and academia.

The program was organized with the aim to create awareness about IPR related issues among Startups, MSMEs and Industries Association.

The purpose of the program was to urge for action among the participants to convert and intangible creation of the mind to a tangible asset.

Eminent speakers from CIPAM, NRDC, Startup India, Novel Patent Services delivered very informative talks on various areas related to IPR and answered specific queries from the participants.

The participants from industry, academia and professionals from various domains highly appreciated the efforts by IPFC and rated the seminar very highly in terms of content, awareness creation and usefulness to the target audience in their feedback.