
Managing Intellectual Property Today, 2026/27 edition
Catching the next wave of growth and anchoring its value
Adam Jolly
Real-life commercial scenarios mapping out how ventures can make the right calls to turn their IP into a high-growth asset that can repeatedly double or triple in value
Sixth edition, published Spring 26, £20.00, €22.50, $25.00, paperback, 150 pages, 229mm x 152mm, ISBN: 978-1-0685644-4-4


Leading Recruiters of Degree Apprentices

ACCENTURE

MICROSOFT

ROLLS-ROYCE
About
For ventures now scaling, at least 80 percent of their value is ultimately going to rest on their intellectual property, if all goes to plan. Yet it’s a far from certain outcome.
Time and again, IP can appear strong on paper but unravel at different points through the growth cycle. No one size or shape of solution fits all. It varies for each venture, depending on how the principals find the right combination of IP to give themselves freedom to operate, the leverage to negotiate, the framework to collaborate, the strength to hold their ground and the flexibility to pivot.
In this book, IP leaders of today and tomorrow draw on real-life commercial scenarios to map out how ventures can make the right calls to turn their IP into a high-growth asset with the capacity to double or triple in value, not just once, but repeatedly.

For the next wave of tech ventures, this book is really valuable in making clear how IP turns their ideas into growth and impact in a way that is easy – and interesting – to follow
Ed Cole
Head of Innovate UK’s ICURe regional hub in London and the South East

Great to see a road map for figuring out how to create intellectual assetsin their broadest sense and combine them with a realistic strategyfor making a return.
Eugene Shteyn
Partner, Blackwood Healthcare Breakthroughs,medtech investors, Cupertino, CA

A really innovative book … it takes you on a learning curve of
how to think about the IP in new technologies
Stephan Spitz
IP professor, engineer and consultant

A broad range of useful and actionable insights that entrepreneurial innovators can apply to their own ventures
Adrian Burden
Tech founder and a Maserati / Sunday Times top 100 entrepreneur


Contents
(1) Future industry giants (2) Strategically open (3) Realising the value in deep tech innovation (4) Crossing tech’s valley of death (5) Innovating for break-out value (6) Building an innovation system for serial exits (7) Licensing for higher growth (8) AI, its ecosystem and IP (9) AI, drug discovery and the potential for IP (10) IP-backed financing (11) Upgrading IP for larger funding rounds (12) Freedom to operate (13) Claim interpretation (14) Living with Europe’s new Unified Patent Court

A timely, practical companion to the complexities of fully extracting value from IP activities … it speaks language that founders understand: outcomes, options and trade-offs
Audrey Yap
Audrey Yap, managing partner, Yusarn Audrey
and co-founder, High-growth Technology Business Initiative
Contributors
European Patent Office • European Innovation Council • Licensing Executives Society International • High-growth Technology Business Initiative • Yusarn Audrey • Asean IP • Globalator • Cohausz & Florack • Santarelli Group • Grunecker • Meissner Bolte • Patentship • Weickmann • Oliver Baldus • Armin K Bohmann • Pfiz/Gauss • BDPE


The contributions to the 2026 edition compellingly illustrate that IP should not be viewed as an isolated legal discipline, but rather as an integral component of growth strategies, investor logic, scalability and technological innovation
Marie Vandersanden
Founder and partner, TourismLawyers

Sample Articles






