Jointly organised by the Intellectual Property Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation (Guangdong Intellectual Property Administration), the Zhongshan Municipal People's Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the "2024 Guangdong/Hong Kong Seminar on Intellectual Property and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises (Zhongshan)" was held in Zhongshan on 5 September 2024. The seminar, entitled "Innovative Development Strategies: Intellectual Property Management and Commercialisation of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Greater Bay Area", sought to raise the level of awareness of IP rights among Hong Kong SMEs and Mainland enterprises in Guangdong Province, and enhance the protection and efficient use of IP for developing effective IP strategies and fostering technology transfer, thereby encouraging enterprises to capitalise on the opportunities offered by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) development under the National 14th Five-Year Plan to expand their business nationwide and worldwide. The seminar attracted an audience of over 200 comprising representatives of SMEs and IP practitioners, as well as government officials from Guangdong and Hong Kong.