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England v India, 2025 First Test, Headingly, Leeds © 2025 Jane Elizabeth Lambert, all rights reserved   Jane Lambert World Intellectual Property Day  is an interntational celebration of the laws that protect investment in branding , design , technology and creativity .  It takes place on or around 26 April which is the anniversary of the WIPO Convention's entry into force.  Each year the celebrations focus on a theme.  The theme for 2026 will be IP and Sports - Ready, Set, Innovate . The Menai Science Park ("M-SParc")  on Anglesey has contributed significantly to  Wales's celebrations of World Intellectual Property Day  every year since 2019.  Sports related businesses based at the science park include Pelly  which offers information systems and services to football club managers and Haia Communications Ltd , which provides a platform for e-sports.  The organizers of this year's celebrations will be Lois Bevan Shaw and Steff Thoma...

John Napier   Jane Lambert As I said in St Andrews Innovation Week , there has been   innovation in St Andrews since the 16th century at least.  John Napier, one of our alumni, invented a precursor of the slide rule and compiled the first logarithms.   Innovation continues at the Eden Campus  which I visited on 15 April 2025 and described in St Andrews Innovation   the very next day. Some of St Andrews Innovation's activities take place online and are available to the public.   Among the most useful are the Lunch & Learn Masterclasses  on YouTube.  These are a series of presentations that have been recorded and posted to YouTube.  The topics are as follows: Lunch and Learn: Pitching Masterclass   Lunch & Learn Entrepreneurship in the Creative Arts   Lunch and Learn: Turn Expertise Into Income Through Consultancy   Lunch & Learn: What is Bootstrap Financing?    Lunch & Learn: Demyst...

(c) 2025 Menai Science Park  Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert I discovered M-SParc  (the Menai Science Park) while on holiday in Beaumaris in 2018.  I wrote about it in  M-SParc - Anglesey's Science Park   on 29 Aug 2018.  I got to know it better when I attended the Anglesey Business Festival  later in the year.  I helped the park contribute to World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April 2019 (see Jane Lambert  Celebrating World IP Day at M-SParc: Basic Tips for Startups and other Small Businesse s 29 April 2019,  NIPC Cymru ).  The event was so successful that Emily Roberts , who was then in charge of Operations and Customer Experience at M-SParc, decided to hold a similar event on 11 November to be known as " Wales Enterprise Day." This year's Wales Enterprise Day coincided with the World Intellectual Property Organization's worldwide celebration of examiners .  M-SParc decided to combine both celebrations with a lu...