In May 2006 a small number of organisations met in Haarlem, The Netherlands on the occasion of the IC Congress held by InHolland University to share information and discuss their activities. These organisations are The Arab Knowledge Economy Association, The developing China IC Centre Support Network, CIP Gothenburg, The Hong Kong based Asia Pacific Intellectual Capital Centre, The IA Centre Scotland, The Indonesia IC Research Centre, InHolland University IC Reserch Centre, Lund University IC Centre, The Ministry of Economics Trade and Industry Japan and the Taiwan IC Research Centre. Since that time the Croatian IC Research Centre, the Finland Futures Research Centre, the IP Academy of Singapore, the Syrian Economic Business Centre and associates of the WIPO ASEAN IP Focused Business Hubs concept have shown interest in participating. These organisations are driven in some cases predominantly by the desire to create new knowledge and in others by the desire to apply knowledge and IC to foster economic development.
The mission of the proposed Association is to provide a platform for all interested organisations to network and share experience in this new and developing field.
The founding sponsors are Prof. Daniel Andriessen of InHolland University (The Netherlands), Prof. Leif Edvinsson of Lund University (Sweden), Prof. Rognbin W B Lee of The Polytechnic University (Hong Kong SAR, China) and Dr. Gordon McConnachie as co-ordinator.
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