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World Intellectual Property Day, Veliaj: Innovation is the future

World Intellectual Property Day, Veliaj: Innovation is the future

The Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj participated today in the National Conference, "Intellectual Property and Youth - Innovation for a better future", which was held on World Intellectual Property Day. In his speech, addressing young people, Veliaj said that their peers around the world are facing the challenges of innovation, using their energy, ingenuity and creativity to create a better future.

"Today's conference makes us understand that every idea, every invention, every achievement has a value in the market, a patent of its own and a way to protect this right. Therefore, I also see it as a fantastic emancipation campaign, where if someone has created a system that works, even here in our 'nahijen', we would be very happy to learn how it is done and if everyone learns from the other, I believe that everyone "We come out more knowledgeable and knowledgeable from this experience today, because that way we get something practical for things that work and strategies that are valid in our context," he said.

Veliaj stated that the protection of intellectual property should serve as a moment of emancipation and inspiration for more innovative ideas.

World Intellectual Property Day, Veliaj: Innovation is the future

"It is very important," he said, "that especially in the work we do with young people, we introduce concepts of what it means to preserve your right, to preserve your idea, to invest in an idea that is unique." .

He said that our country should try to make up for lost time and that technology is the best way for Albanian youth to invest. Veliaj noted the fact that young people should aim for more than just a job in the state.

"In our entire region, not only in Albania or Kosovo, but also in Montenegro, Bosnia, Northern Macedonia, Serbia, in every survey, over 90% of young people still want to work in the country after graduating from university. The same young people, the same age group, in Tel Aviv, in Estonia, in Latvia, in Lithuania, in Ireland, they want to work in private, they want to start their own company, they want to be their own 'bosses', of their lives. I believe that here we really need to change this mentality. "More and more the state will employ less and it will be a kind of 'light cavalry', but in the meantime the 'big infantry' will be in private," said the mayor.