“…A belief shared by developed and developing nations alike is that innovation is supported by intellectual property protection. It encourages individuals and companies to seek new solutions in products and services, and also, by sharing the details of the innovation through patent disclosures, allows others to learn from the disclosed 'art' (WIPO, 2017) or as conceptualised by Newton -'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants' (Lingard & Perry, 2016;Popova, 2016). ASEAN is an association of the ten Southeast Asian nations, namely: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.…”