The Global Manager of SN Anku IP Firm, Sarah Norkor Anku, has said that Intellectual Property (IP), when adopted in businesses, would help entrepreneurs boost, protect, and monetise their ventures.

Addressing the media at a workshop to commemorate World Intellectual Property Day, she stated that IP has worked in other countries, urging Ghanaian entrepreneurs to also make use of the system.

“What we have done is partner with OAWLI, a women's entrepreneurship hub, to have a workshop with the women and educate them on how to use the IP to boost their businesses and to benefit from their intellectual property assets. There is a gap in terms of knowledge and we hope that with this workshop, we will get more people interested in using the IP system to their benefit.

“It has worked in other jurisdictions, so we should be able to use that in Ghana and Africa to help our own businesses as well, especially the women’s businesses and the young women entrepreneurs. We want to secure their creativity; we want them to know what they can use their creativity for and how they can monetise what they have in order to help them or to take care of their families,” she said.

Sarah Norkor Anku entreated all business owners to register their businesses as mandated by the laws of Ghana.

World Intellectual Property (IP) Day is celebrated every April 26.

As part of events to mark the celebration, the SN Anku IP Firm, in collaboration with the Oxford Africa Women Leadership Institute (OAWLI), held a workshop on April 26 to brief entrepreneurs on the need to use IP in their businesses.

The 2024 World Intellectual Property Day was celebrated under the theme “IP and the SDGs: Building Our Common Future with Innovations and Creativity.”

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