The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) will host a webinar titled Idea Factories: How Intellectual Property Sustains and Cultivates Technology Ecosystems. This event will begin with a conversation with Professor Jonathan Barnett, Idea Factories report author. There will also be a panel discussion with Kirti Gupta, Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research and Non-Resident Expert for Renewing American Innovation at CSIS; Andrei Iancu, C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director; and Coke Morgan Stewart, C4IP President and CEO and former USPTO Deputy Director. The panel speakers will discuss how strong intellectual property rights help ideas become industries, encourage competition and collaboration, support entrepreneurs, and reinforce U.S. economic and technological leadership globally. This discussion will be moderated by Safi Bahcall, bestselling author of “Loonshots.” For additional information and to register to attend, please click here.