TheResearch Center for Intangible Assets Management in China University of Political Science and Law was founded in October, 2009, and was the first Center for Intangible Assets Management in China.The Director of Center, Prof. XiaoQing Feng, is the National Intellectual Property Major Program Academic Leader, Director of Institute of Intellectual Property, and Vice-director of China Intellectual Property Association.

　　The major responsibilityof center includes but not limited to: establish academic platform on the basis of CUPL; conduct research on intangible assets; provides specialized counseling, training, and other specialized services on the management of intangible assets for society; improve the self-developing capability, and upgrade the center as the most famous academic institute for intangible assets management nationwide.

　　With the development of intellectual economy and scientific technology nowadays, intangible assets play an indispensable role for both the country and the enterprises, especially as the important components of enterprises property. Because of various kinds of reasons, the country lacks of sufficient attention and research on management of intangible assets.Therefore, it is critically necessary to enhance the research on intangible assets management. This center depends on the research team and academic achievement on the discipline of law and management in CUPL, extends the research range of intangible assets, and significantly enhance the influence and position of CUPL in the field of intangible assets nationwide as well as the research reputation worldwide. As a result, the center motivates the development of intangible assets management discipline, and meanwhile provides the country with advanced talents in the field of intangible assets management.

　　The strengths of center lie in powerful research team and profound academic achievements with respect to intangible assets management as well as the strong and reliable connection to relevant institutes and agencies nationwide or worldwide. Furthermore, the center has made substantial achievements based on the discipline of law and management. For example, Director and Prof. XiaoQing Feng has obtained a number of achievements and awards:hosted the National Social Science Foundation “Research on Legal Operating System of Technology Innovation for Enterprises and Intellectual Property Strategies” and other programs; published Intellectual Property Management for Enterprises, which was awarded the “National Level Textbooks”; published over 100 law articles in domestic or international journals. The center has a distinguished academic research team, and hired domestic or foreign prominent experts and scholars as guesting researchers or professors in the field of intangible assets management, including Guesting Prof. David Teecee of Business School, UC Berkeley, Presiding Judge Thomas J. R. Voit of German Federal Patent Court, President Kwang-Jun Kim of Licensing Executive Society South Korea, Lawyer Junichi Yamazaki of Licensing Executive Society Japan.

　　The developing plan for the center in recent years emphasizes on following aspects: apply for and secure national or provincial level research projects; obtain scientific research projects from enterprises; complete Intellectual Property Management for Enterprises, Intellectual Property Operating Management for Enterprises, Technology Innovation and Intellectual Property Strategy for Enterprises, and other valuable books;

　　publish a volume of high influential academic papers on the subject of intangible assets management; reinforce the communication and cooperation with SASAC, State Intellectual Property Office, Ministry of Science and Technology, and the connection with foreign academic institutes; provide counseling services and training for government agencies and corporations; increase the opportunities of communication and cooperation with foreign intangible assets and intellectual property agencies; educate advanced talents a of intangible assets management through visiting scholars. The center emphasizes on the theory of intangible assets management, state owned intangible assets management, intangible assets management for enterprises, and intellectual property management.

　　Contact: Prof. XiaoQing Feng，fengxiaoqingipr@sina.com

　　Website: http://www.fengxiaoqingip.com