The workshop on Management of Intellectual Property Assets in Small-and-Medium-Sized Companies in the Agro Industrial Sector and Handcrafts was organized, with the participation of ASIPI, by WIPO in the Dominican Republic on August 26^th and 27^th, 2007. Its main objective was to promote the use of distinctive signs in the entrepreneurial agricultural and handcraft sectors as a means of differentiation to achieve greater competitiveness both in the national and the international markets. Seventeen national and foreign lecturers took part in the event, among whom we wish to mention Mr. Marco Marzano and Ms. Betty Berendson, WIPO, Mr. Enrique Ramírez, Director of the Industrial Property National Office of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Justin Young and Ms. María del Pilar Troncoso, representatives of ASIPI, Mr. Alberto Monjarás and Ms. Patricia Gamboa, of the Mexican IMPI and the Peruvian INDECOPI, respectively, Ms. Ana Muñoz, of Handcrafts of Colombia, and representatives of the national business sector.  The workshop met with great success due to the interest shown in the issues that were dealt with, namely, the advantages of adequately protecting industrial property assets. In addition, it was a starting point for handcraft representatives agro industrial representatives to organize themselves to defend each sector’s specific interests, of which the existing problems were raised.