Working Group on Innovation and Commercialization
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.
Current projects
The Working Group on Innovation and Commercialization is pursuing the following projects:
GPAI expert reports
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)
Our experts
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)
- Nathanael Ackerman, AI4Belgium, SPF Stratégie et Appui (Belgium)
- Foteini Agrafioti, Borealis AI (Canada)
- Pekka Ala-Pietilä, Huhtamaki; Sanoma (European Union)
- Sergio Álvarez Teleña, SciTheWorld, Himitsu Tech (Spain)
- Laercio Aniceto Silva (Brazil)
- Robert Atkinson, ITIF (United States)
- Hemant Darbari, India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) (India)
- Norberto Ferreira, Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications (Brazil)
- Justin Flitter, NewZealand.AI (New Zealand)
- Jean-François Gagné, ServiceNow; Element AI (Canada)
- Daniel Gillblad, AI Sweden (Sweden)
- Tabitha Goldstaub, CognitionX (United Kingdom)
- Marko Grobelnik, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
- Tan Geok Leng, AIDA Technologies (Singapore)
- Ingo Hoffman, AI Hamburg; ADI Innovation AG (Germany)
- Tagui Ichikawa, Hitotsubashi University (Japan)
- Salma Jalife Villalón, Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transport (Mexico)
- Jeon Jeong-Hwa, Korea Institute of Intellectual Property (South Korea)
- Kyunghoon Kim, Korea Information Society Development Institute (South Korea)
- 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, Unternehmer TUM GmbH (Germany)
- Ségolène Martin, Kantify (European Union)
- Inma Martínez, Independent Expert in industrial and societal digital transformation (Spain)
- Edward McDonnell, Applied AI (Ireland)
- Gustavo Medina Tanco, Laboratory of Space Instrumentation, LINX Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM (Mexico)
- Emma Naji, AI Forum NZ (New Zealand)
- Fawzi Nashashibi, Inria (France)
- Lucas Noldus, Noldus Information Technology BV, Wageningen (Netherlands)
- Katarzyna Nosalska, Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Poland)
- Daniela Rus, MIT (United States)
- Riccardo Sabatini, Orionis Biosciences (Italy)
- Umakant Soni, AI Foundry; piVentures; ARTPARK (India)
- Lee Tiedrich, Duke University (United States)
- Junichi Tsujii, Japan's National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)
- Toby Walsh, Data61 (Australia)
- Blaž Zupan, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Helani Galpaya, LIRNEasia (Sri Lanka)
- Dorothy Gordon, Independent Consultant, Information for all Programme (via UNESCO), FOSS for Africa Organization (Ghana)
Observers
- Yann Dietrich, Atos (France)
- Antoine Dupont, CEA (France)
- Neeraj Gupta, Formulate IP (Canada/India)
- Alistair Nolan, OECD
- Natalie Raffoul, Brion Raffoul LLP (Canada)
Specialists
- Vikram Adve, AIFARMS National AI Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
- Carolyn Blankenship, Thomson Reuters (United States)
- Marc-André Sirard, Université Laval (Canada)
- Rajesh Sreenivasan, Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity, Rajah & Tann Technologies, Rajah & Tann Asia (Singapore)
- Ulrike Till, WIPO (Germany/Switzerland)