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Innovating for break-out value

Put purpose before solution and open up the potential for multiplying your value, not once but several times, says Robert Klinski at Patentship

The IP in France's AI surge

France's AI start-ups rely as much on proprietary algorithms and data as on patenting innovations

Ego and generosity? The leader’s balance

Olivier Courtois discusses an action plan for balancing ambition with the value you can add

Crossing tech's valley of death

When only an eighth of breakthroughs reach the market, it's star commercialisers who make the difference

How IP is inspiring high growth and capturing break-out value in 2025/26

New title about lining up the right IP in the right business model with the right mindset to scale exponentially

Growing by connecting personally

In the modern workplace, growth still depends on connecting personally, says Rafael Gozalo at thePower

Innovating with edge technologies

In edge technologies, why is it so few who are fully grasping the potential for innovation and IP, asks Robert Klinski

Launch at Riverside Books

Sell-out for Robert Flint's new book about collaboration as a superpower for winning business

Compete against big tech and supercharge your growth with referrals

How referrals can supercharge flows of work across extended networks in the modern workplace

Training AI patents

It’s the origin of the data that matters when training AI patents, says Robert Klinski, as in the case of autonomous forklifts

The seven dysfunctions that repeatedly cause leaders to lose their way

It takes constant vigilance to keep your business, your career and your life on track, says Olivier Courtois

Creating IP with impact

Three EPO case studies review how layer by layer IP creates a foundation for complex innovation

Three characteristics determine the value of IP assets

Better a few diamonds than tons of coal in your portfolio, says Oliver Baldus

Rethinking your IP for digital

The IP you own in one domain may be less effective when you switch to digital, says Mathias Karlhuber

What to disclose? Patents v trade secrets

Jens Pilger asks four questions about what to disclose and what to keep secret

Leadership, yes, but what for?

Know what your leadership is for, identify three drivers for stand-out performance, says Patrick Faniel at MCE

Five ways to become an agile IP venture like Nvidia

Andrea Schuessler highlights five ways for agile IP ventures to become future ready

Holding off IP pursuers

DT Swiss redefined how bikers change their wheels, then faced an uphill climb to hold off its IP pursuers

Exponential IP as a model

Audrey Yap at the High-growth Technology Business Initiative discusses the potential for exponential IP

Innovating with medical AI

Philip Johnson at Walk with Path reviews Minesoft's survey of medical AI

First to market

Christoph Behrens and Lukas Bischoff at Meissner trace how the gene editor Intellia took its IP from Nobel to Nasdaq

Scrutiny of intellectual assets

Scrutiny of your IAs is intensifying, as investors expect to gain easy access to your data room, says Sarah Grant at Stratagem

How IP is fuelling innovation and high growth for 2024/25

20 routes to innovation and high growth with IP

IP cluster continues the cycle of innovation

A cluster of 3D printing around TU Vienna is creating a platform for repeated innovation

Freedom to pivot

Keep your freedom to pivot without destroying value and losing priority, says Eugene Shteyn

Five IP questions for investors in tech ventures

Explore five IP questions before investing in a tech venture, says Mathias Karlhuber at Cohausz & Florack

From platform IP to tech exit

By connecting wind turbines to IoT, a TUM spin-out turned platform IP into a portfolio for investors to acquire and operate

Medical innovation transformed

As AI transforms medical innovation, bring your IP up to speed, say Christian Heubeck and Stephan Jellbauer at Weickmann

Unlocking IP for safer e-bikes

Italian start-up steers its IP from its origins in motorsports to co-creating solutions for safer e-bikes

Find the tech sweet spot

Find the tech sweet spot to become one of the winners from digital transformation, says Robert Klinkski at Patentship

Pricing intellectual assets at exit

Three elements determine the final price of a high-growth tech business, says Juergen Graner at Globalator

Research to lift-off: ten high IP impacts

High growth? High impact? Ten IP highlights from three EPO case studies

Disruptive innovators leave prior art to last

Take a cue from Tesla or blockchain, says Robert Klinski at Patentship

Climbing the ladder of IP support

An all-woman team of inventors opens up a path through Turkey’s ladders of IP support

Three steps to realising the value in edge tech

In edge technologies, too many are missing the potential for innovation and IP, says Robert Klinski at Patentship

Take manufacturing risks off grid to make a big innovative switch

Innovate the manufacturing model to bring capital-intensive solutions to market, says Toby Gill at IPG

Fit for US consumers

Atlantic Therapeutics is raising $45m to make UCD’s original IP fit for US consumers

Why confident diversity makes business sense for Confused.com

Create the confidence to make a reality of diversity, says Louise o’Shea, chief executive of Confused.com

High-growth tech characteristics

Let’s debunk myths round high-growth tech businesses, says Audrey Yap at the High-growth Technology Business Initiative

Breaking the bias for women leaders

How women become leaders: it’s time for a change in approach, says Hilarie Owen at the Leaders Institute

The power of pivots

How the power to pivot put Oxeon aboard the first helicopter to fly on Mars

Who gains from Industry 4.0 collaborations

Without transformed business models, suppliers struggle to compete, reports Marcos Kauffman

Start-up system: organise in departments first, then grow

How to put in a place a start-up system so investors know you can scale

Start-up to scale-up: lining up the money to grow

What funders expect from entrepreneurs and founders at each stage of their growth

Workplace skills for the post-pandemic workplace

Master anxieties? inspire others? influence without authority? The workplace skills that now really count

Augmented IP reality

How Dispelix is scaling its IP into a venture ready for augmented reality in Silicon Valley

IP, SMEs and high-level performance

IP makes SMEs 21% more likely to grow, report Thomas Bereuter, Yann Ménière and Ilja Rudyk at the EPO

IP models for tomorrow's technology leaders

Model your IP for speed and complexity, say Bowman Heiden and Ruud Peters

IP and IPOs: what stock markets expect

IP proved vital for Marinomed’s €22m flotation on the Vienna Stock Exchange

Proof of tech without market traction

Use IP to power through the early rounds of funding, says Philipp Kramer at Dyemansion

Innovating with the Mittelstand

Support for employees as inventors is a distinctive characteristic of Germany’s hidden champions

Negotiations for upstarts

Tilt the balance of power in your favour in IP negotiations

The three intellectual assets that drive value

The best returns come from tech, brands and operational excellence, says Juergen Graner

LESI president comments

Audrey Yap reviews new title on IP and high growth

IP for blitzscalers

Brian More, a scale-up director, reviews Novaro's new title on IP and high growth

Where blockchain works best

For the most impact, bring together multiple mistrusting parties and cut out intermediaries, says Troy Norcross at Blockchain Rookies

Capture the value in soft IP

Algorithms, designs, know-how and proof of concept are joining patents as key elements in today’s innovation mix, says Carol Daniel at City, University of London

New business models in manufacturing

Blockchain will transform how manufacturers compete and operate, though only a few are implementing at scale as yet, says Marcos Kauffman at AME

Blockchain takes customer loyalty to another level

Customer reward schemes are ripe for disruption. Kate Baucherel discusses how blockchain is transforming the landscape for customer loyalty

Revolutionisation of business models

In a review of <i>Growing with Blockchain</i>, Kokila Alagh of Karm Legal in Dubai comments on the multi-faceted impact that blockchain is now making

Ten tips for on-screen meetings and presentations

On Zoom or Skype, make sure you are present visually, verbally and vocally, says Novaro author

How speakers perform at defining moments

Novaro title reviews how individuals and teams become the best version of themselves when under the spotlight

Positive response from Royal Society’s entrepreneurs

Novaro start-up title circulated to The Royal Society’s industry fellows and entrepreneurs in residence

IP title kicks off at the Aviva

Book by 24 top-level IP performers makes debut at the European Patent Office’s high-growth technology conference

Titles featured by the Malvern Book Co-op

Three Novaro authors give talks and promote their books at the Malvern Festival of Innovation

From spin-out to international player

Christian Hackl at TUM-Tech and Thomas Bereuter at the EPO discuss the role that IP played in Orcan's dynamic growth in generating power from waste heat

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