Author: Editorial staff

In today’s innovation economy, patents and other intellectual property have quietly become the real infrastructure of value creation. Factories, machines and buildings still matter, but much of a company’s competitive edge now lies in code, data, algo ...

Scale-ups have become an essential part of the European innovation landscape. They sit at a critical stage between early technological breakthroughs and substantial market presence. Unlike start-ups, which focus on proving feasibility and securing ini ...

The 2025 update of the Open Foresight Board Trend Radar, enriched with insights from MIPLM participants, provides a wide-ranging and multi-layered perspective on the evolution of intellectual property management. The findings show that many traditiona ...

If you lead an IP department or an R&D team, you don’t just need another tool — you need a repeatable way to create demand for IP, prove its value inside your organization, and convert that value into measurable business outcomes. That’s exactly w ...

For more than a decade, digital transformation in engineering meant process standardization and automation, PLM integration, and the perpetual struggle to harmonise documentation across global R&D organisations. These efforts were necessary, but t ...

On 10 October in Munich, Weickmann & Weickmann hosted an expert exchange on digital business development in IP. Across panels and roundtables, one theme kept surfacing: referrals are still the fastest path to high-fit mandates—yet most firms treat ...

Many IP experts in the IP community at I3PM, the HTB-EPO initiative, and IP offices and institutions in national and regional innovation systems have asked Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer: “Where can you be sure not to miss any important IP management cont ...

The new WIPO Pulse 2025 report is more than a data set. It is a mirror held up to the global IP ecosystem – and it shows that years of coordinated IP awareness building are starting to pay off. WIPO surveyed 35,500 people in 74 countries and found ris ...

Bas Albers represents a new archetype of IP Subject Matter Expert on the IP Business Academy. Unlike many experts who operate through the lens of law firms, Bas is a service founder. His company, Artemis IP-Management, and his tool, the Patent Cockpit ...

In today’s knowledge economy, intellectual property (IP) has become far more than a legal safeguard. It is the structural backbone of competitive advantage. Yet, many companies still treat IP as a legal necessity rather than a managed valuable asset. ...