Baku, Azerbaijan, April 30
By Huseyn Valiyev - Trend:
The development of a start-up movement in Azerbaijan, as in many countries of the world, depends on a positive solution to the problem of education of respect towards intellectual property, the director of licensing Microsoft in Central and Eastern Europe Evgeny Danilov told Trend.
The matter is not the protection of the finished product, but the protection of the idea itself, he said.
"All startups, "know-how" and various Internet applications are based on thoughts and ideas. Azerbaijan has a corresponding law, infrastructure. Law enforcement practices should be developed so that people do not have a desire to assign another's idea or another's intellectual property," Danilov said.
Microsoft is interested in the development of start-ups, as well as in the fact that young people by using Microsoft's platform can develop and maintain a system, introduce new applications and products to the market, according to the expert.
"We will be ready to take the initiative, if we see that the state is able to establish an adequate basis for this. Today, in fact, we do it. We help develop young talent, but until the infrastructure is taken seriously, I believe, it will be only be a few cases," he said.
As the Deputy Executive Director of the State Fund for the Development of ICT of the Ministry of Communications and High-Technologies Azer Bayramov said earlier, the state fund prepares mechanisms on the protection of start-up project ideas. The matter is the juridical regulation of the problem, which disturbs entrepreneurs today.
Many people initially think about protection of their ideas at an early stage of formation, Bayramov said.
"The question is quite relevant and important for such industry as information technologies. Therefore, today we are going to start work in this direction for the future," he said.
Translated by S.I.
Edited by C.N.