Category: Institutions

In a modern knowledge driven economy, it becomes more and more important not only to do high level research, but to further identify the most relevant ideas for innovation and technology transfer. With this also smaller economies can use the chances o ...

The High-growth Technology Business (HTB) community is an initiative to support business decision makers in SMEs by raising awareness about the relevance of intellectual property for their business. The High-growth Technology Business initiative regul ...

Global technology transfer is still a major challenge in a wide range of technology areas. There are several challenges that arise when transferring technology especially from universities to industry. One challenge is that technology transfer between ...

High-growth technology businesses are typically small and medium-sized enterprises or start-ups that bring innovation, employment and productivity to traditional as well as new industry sectors. These businesses are a major driver of Europe’s ec ...

Commercialization of IP assets is not only relevant for technology and manufacturing companies, but increasingly also for digital companies, because their products and services are relying on digital, easy to copy goods and business models. Therefore, ...

The HTBC initiative of the EPO organized on Tuesday 13th September a seminar on “Software and patents in medtech: boosting your growth as SME”. It was designed as an event with expert keynots, case study presentations and discussions on the role of IP ...

On Tuesday 13th September the High-growth technology business community (HTBC) initiative organizes the seminar on “Software and patents in medtech: boosting your growth as SME”. The HTBC event is powered by the EPO in cooperation with the CEIPI IP bu ...

In principle, the same subject matter shall not be claimed by two patents. Nevertheless, this does not happen so rarely in practice. This is because patent applicants who claim both national protection and protection by a European patent often file a ...

Numerous studies have shown that the contribution of SMEs concerning innovation performance is important for the European economy. At the same time, empirical data shows insufficient and incomplete use of IP by many SMEs in Europe. Although the releva ...

The commercialization of intellectual property assets and with it the management of intellectual property as a whole, becomes more and more a global topic. Therefore, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) organized already in 2018 togeth ...