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The Innovation and Commercialization (I&C) Working Group’s mandate is to:

• study and recommend tools and methods to drive international collaboration on AI R&D and innovation,
• advance research results into products and processes,
• transfer these results to industry, with a special focus on SMEs.

It will examine support measures to facilitate these advances, including standards and norms, self-certifications and more.

The Working Group on Innovation and Commercialization is pursuing the following projects:

• Broad Adoption of AI by SMEs
• Protecting AI innovation, Intellectual Property
• Broad Adoption of AI by SMEs in the Agriculture and Farming Sector
• Boosting Innovation while Regulating AI

2023

 Fostering Contractual Pathways for Responsible AI Data and Model Sharing for Generative AI and Other AI Applications (November 2023)

2022

Innovation & Commercialization Working Group Report (November 2022)

Broad Adoption of AI by SMEs in the Agriculture and Farming Sector (November 2022)

Broad Adoption of AI by SMEs (November 2022)

Intellectual Property Expert Guidelines for scraping or collecting publicly accessible data (November 2022)

Intellectual Property Expert preliminary report on data and AI model licensing (November 2022)

Intellectual Property Primer (November 2022)

2021

 Innovation & Commercialization Working Group Report (November 2021)

 Innovation & Commercialization Working Group SMEs Committee Report (November 2021)

 GPAI Intellectual Property (IP) Primer (November 2021)

2020

Innovation & Commercialization Working Group Report (November 2020)

Group contact point: GPAI Paris Centre of Expertise

Group participants

• Laurence Liew, AI Singapore (co-chair, Singapore)
• Françoise Soulié-Fogelman, Hub France IA (co-chair, France)
• Laurence Liew, AI Singapore (co-chair, Singapore)
• Françoise Soulié-Fogelman, Hub France IA (co-chair, France)
• Mausam, Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence (Yardi ScAI) at the Indian Institute of Technology (India)
• Nathanael Ackerman, AI4Belgium, SPF Stratégie et Appui (Belgium)
• Sergio Álvarez Teleña, SciTheWorld, Himitsu Tech (Spain)
• Laercio Aniceto Silva, Centers of Reference in Innovative Technologies (Brazil)
• Norberto Ferreira, Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications (Brazil)
• Naohiro Furukawa, ABEJA (Japan)
• Daniel Gillblad, AI Sweden (Sweden)
• Marko Grobelnik, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
• Ingo Hoffman, AI Hamburg; ADI Innovation AG (Germany)
• Tagui Ichikawa, Hitotsubashi University (Japan)
• Robert Kroplewski, Ministry of Digital Affairs for Information Society (Poland)
• Katya Lainé, TALKR.ai; numeum; Le Voice Lab (France)
• Mekyung Lee, Korea University (South Korea)
• Andreas Liebl, appliedAI (Germany)
• Ségolène Martin, Kantify (European Union)
• Inma Martínez, Independent Expert in industrial and societal digital transformation (Spain)
• Edward McDonnell, Applied AI (Ireland)
• Lucas Noldus, Noldus Information Technology BV, Wageningen (Netherlands)
• Katarzyna Nosalska, Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Poland)
• Tom Peter Migun Ogada, T$P Innovation And Technology Management Services Ltd. (Kenya)
• Vili Podgorelec, Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Maribor (Slovenia)
• Golestan “Sally” Radwan, Egyptian Minister for Artificial Intelligence (Egypt)
• Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
• Lee Tiedrich, Duke University (United States)
• Junichi Tsujii, Japan's National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)

Observers

• Flavio Calvino, OECD
• Yann Dietrich, Atos (France)

Specialists

• Vikram Adve, AIFARMS National AI Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
• Carolyn Blankenship, Thomson Reuters (United States)
• Cyrus Hodes, AgTech-Climate Tech Founder (France/United States)
• Noriyuki Murakami, Research Center for Agricultural Information Technology; Research Center for Agricultural Robotics (Japan)
• Daniela Rus, MIT (United States)
• Hisao Shiomi, Tsukuba University (Japan)
• Marc-André Sirard, Université Laval (Canada)
• Rajesh Sreenivasan, Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity, Rajah & Tann Technologies, Rajah & Tann Asia (Singapore)
• Ulrike Till, WIPO (Germany/Switzerland)