For subscribers
In Good Company
At UN’s Wipo, Singaporean Daren Tang strives to create an equal music for haves and have-nots
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
The US, says Mr Daren Tang, remains the “pre-eminent innovation engine” because it is the best in commercialising ideas.
ST PHOTO: HESTER TAN
Follow topic:
Shortly after he took over as director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) five years ago – the first Singaporean to head a major UN agency – an ambassador from an African nation had this to say to Mr Daren Tang.
“The problem with intellectual property, DG,” he told the former government lawyer, “is that it is too intellectual.”
