Role of Central Government and Local Government for Intellectual Property Policy

Central Government is developing the plan for Intellectual Property Policy every year. However, the plan for Intellectual Property Policy should be developed also by Local Government because Intellectual Property Policy depends on the feature (e.g. the most leading induetry, the most advanced technology) in each local area. Therefore, some Local Governments started to develop their own plansfor Intellectual Property Policy in their own local area. Under the situation above, it is becoming new issue to think about the different role of Central Government and Local Government for Intellectual Property Policy. In this paper, the difference between Central Government and Local Government for Intellectual Property Policy becomes clear by the analysis based on the Questionnaire Survey.