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Learn more about open innovation, technology push and market pull and IP assessment, and find out how to identify partners and create market opportunities for successful IP commercialisation.

Creating IP for impact: Three EPO case studies

Finding cures for cancer is one of the toughest challenges in innovation. Novel ideas for treatments and diagnostics are hard to establish, costly and slow to develop. This article reviews three EPO innovation case studies featuring the journey of the biotech ventures Damae Medical, OncoMark and OncoQR. It demonstrates how intellectual property can lay a foundation for business ventures in this particularly complex field of innovation.

Read the short version of the article in the book ‘Winning with IP'

Authors:

Thomas Bereuter
Innovation networks manager, European Patent Academy, European Patent Office

Ilja Rudyk
Senior economist, European Patent Office

Adéla Dvořáková
Vice-chair, LESI High-growth technology business committee

Bowman Heiden
Co-director, Center for Intellectual Property (CIP), University of Gothenburg

John McManus
IP specialist, advisor and trainer

Ciaran O’Beirne
Head of knowledge transfer, University College Dublin

IP and open innovation: Managing technology push and pull

Growing technology convergence and speed to market drives the need for a broader set of accessible technologies and IP. This creates market opportunities for increased technology collaboration as some firms and organisations can find expanded uses for their existing technology portfolios (i.e. technology push), whereas others look to resolve innovation gaps using sources outside of their own in-house operations (i.e. technology* or market pull**). Firms need to generate a sophisticated understanding of their future innovation needs based on an integrated approach that combines business, technology and IP strategy. To remain competitive, all technology-driven firms are pushed to move from a closed to an open approach to innovation. To succeed, they need to consider all possible sources of innovation, for both development and commercialisation. Fundamentally, open innovation is a strategic IP management approach that needs to be governed explicitly, not implicitly.

Read the full article in les Nouvelles - Journal of the Licensing Executives Society International

Watch the video Technology push and Technology pull

Watch the video High growth business and patent commercialisation: Ruud Peters

Watch the video High growth business and patent commercialisation: Bowman Heiden

Authors (in alphabetical order):

Bowman Heiden
Co-Director, Center for Intellectual Property (CIP),
University of Gothenburg

Ruud Peters
IP business leader, Peters IP consultancy, former Chief
Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) of Philips

Integration of IP into the “classical” Stage-Gate Model

The Stage-Gate model is a widely used method for structuring the innovation process into defined phases, separated by distinctive gates. However, in its "classic" form, it typically does not include IP aspects. Since a thorough IP process is needed for any successful innovation project, key elements of IP protection have been integrated into the "classic" Stage-Gate model. The company Transitions Optical, for instance, uses such a model.

Read the full article in les Nouvelles - Journal of the Licensing Executives Society International

Authors:

Christian Hackl
Managing Director, TUM-Tech GmbH

Sandrine Guillermin
Global IP Counsel, Transitions Optica

Succeeding with market facilitators

How buyers and sellers meet

Market facilitators play an important role in facilitating IP (intellectual property) transfers. This article reviews the advantages and limitations of the different types of market facilitators and provides guidance on how and when to involve them.

Read the full article in les Nouvelles - Journal of the Licensing Executives Society International

Watch the video Succeeding with market facilitators

Watch the video Benefits of market facilitators in the Korean market

Authors (in alphabetical order):

Bastian July
CEO, GoodIP, and General counsel, ProGlove

Ilja Rudyk
Senior economist, European Patent Office

Succeeding with market facilitators

Market facilitators can be of great value to small and medium-sized enterprises or start-ups looking for early-stage R&D solutions. Learn how organisations such as Knowledge Transfer Ireland can provide access to all the information you need to protect and efficiently commercialise your technology.

Benefits of market facilitators in the Korean market

Discover the main differences between a private market facilitator and a public agent operating in the Korean market.

How to market and license your technology

Best practices and expert insights from social media are combined to shed more light on the needs of licensees or buyers to improve technology offers and the marketing approaches of licensors and sellers to foster technology transfer.

Read the full article in les Nouvelles - Journal of the Licensing Executives Society International

Watch the video Marketing for SMEs and technology companies

Authors (in alphabetical order):

Thomas Bereuter
Innovation Support Programme Area Manager, European
Patent Academy, European Patent Office

Bastian July
CEO, GoodIP, and General counsel, ProGlove

Skills and systems

Find out how companies organise their business units to derive value from an intellectual property strategy and which actors play a major role in that process.

Watch the video Skills and Systems

From research to lift-off. Three EPO case studies

In the Technology transfer case studies, each venture has highlighted its takeaways on its path to transforming original research in the lab into commercial applications for use in real life.

Read the article in the book ‘Winning with IP’

Authors (in alphabetical order):

Thomas Bereuter
Innovation Support Programme Area Manager, European
Patent Academy, European Patent Office

Ilja Rudyk
Senior economist, European Patent Office