The Innovative Entrepreneur Association (IEA) will launch the first Design Licensing And Business (DLAB) Support Scheme, to help young character designers and owners of young IPs promote their IPs and grow their businesses with mentoring, training, business matching, and exhibition promotion. The project will feature the first Hong Kong Pavilion in the Hong Kong International Licensing Show 2019 promoting original designs and licensable creative content IPs. Eligible Hong Kong character designers/ owners of licensable IP, and SMEs are most welcome to join us!DLAB is the acronym of “Design Licensing and Business”. We hope designers can fully utilize our support scheme to learn more about licensing their designs and growing their business successfully.

DLAB can also be read as “D”esign “Lab”, a pun with association of meaning that when Design meet Business, collaboration will be fostered and positive chemistry inspired with unlimited potentials. In this “Lab”, designers can share their bright ideas freely and let their creative synergies collide here.

The Second Design Licensing and Business (DLAB) Support Scheme (DLAB) organised by the Innovative Entrepreneur Association (IEA) and sponsored by Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (CreateHK) aims to help character designers and owners of young IPs to explore businesses opportunities by providing them with training, workshop and sales pitcing, etc. A Hong Kong Pavilion will also be set up in the Hong Kong International Licensing Show 2020 on 6 to 8 January 2020 to promote the original designs and licensable creative content IPs of the participating companies of the 2nd DLAB. Hong Kong designers with original or licensable characters, owners of licensable design content IPs and small and medium-sized design companies are invited to apply to the 2nd DLAB. Application deadline is 8 August 2019 (Thursday).
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The acronym “DLAB” comes from the four main elements of the Support Scheme, viz “Design”, “Licensing”, “and” as well as “Business”. Through the DLAB, participating designers should be able to learn more about the business opportunities arising from design licensing, which will facilitate their business growth. It is our belief that more sparkles of creativity can be generated by designers in their design paths by participating in the DLAB that will help them unleash their endless creativity and potentials.

The Innovative Entrepreneur Association (IEA) (the Organizer) will launch the 3rd Design Licensing And Business (DLAB) Support Scheme (DLAB), under the sponsorship of Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, to help young character designers and owners of other young intellectual properties (IPs) promote their IPs and grow their businesses with training, business matching, sales pitching and exhibition promotion in the Hong Kong International Licensing Show 2021.
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DLAB is the acronym of “Design Licensing and Business”. We hope designers can fully utilize the Support Scheme to learn more about licensing their design IPs with a view to growing their businesses successfully.
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DLAB can also be read as “D”esign “Lab”, a pun with association of meaning that when Design meets Business, collaboration will be fostered and positive chemistry will be inspired with unlimited potentials. In this “Lab”, designers can share their bright ideas freely and let their creative synergies collide here.