Category: CEIPI / MIPLM

In periods of disruption, uncertainty and challenges are inevitable. However, these times often also uncover new opportunities. Patents as business assets are used addressing both risks and potential rewards. Patents help to overcome a given level of ...

A revolutionary solution to automatically analyze carb intake while eating. To keep blood-sugar levels within a healthy range, the body processes multiple, complex information from the brain, digestive system, and other sensory perception. Patients wi ...

Agility and digitalization seem to be the pillars of the future of successful companies. Or is it just a current bubble that will burst and everything is going on as usual? Honestly, these concepts do not really deal with new insights. The term agilit ...

The classical business model in the lighting industry was for a long time to sell LED lights and other luminants at a retailer. This has changed with the development of new business models, where products are leased but bought. The new type of busines ...

Hilti’s step from being a seller of products to becoming a provider of complete B2B solutions goes beyond additional services and traditional after sales services or spare part provision: it is called fleet management. The fleet management idea at Hil ...

Digitalization causes a complete paradigm shift of production and innovation options. In a digital environment, innovation systems and management of technology face new challenges. Product development and engineering departments across the globe need ...

Since June 2020 we have in Germany the DIN77006 to design digital use cases and other solutions like apps, customer journeys and business models to make them patentable and free of third-party rights. This university seminar by CEIPI explains how to a ...

The Master class of MIPLM (Master of Intellectual Property Law and Management) in February 2021 was about the patenting use cases. How to design use cases to make them patentable? Many people are confused of use cases and business models. A use case d ...

Across many industries, a rising tide of VUCA-characteristic, like volatility, uncertainty and business complexity is shaking markets and changing the nature and rules of competition. VUCA is an acronym which made its way into the business lexicon. Th ...

The value chain was first described by Michael Porter in his groundbreaking book “Competitive Advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance” (Porter, 1998). It describes the primary and support activities which are needed to create products ...