At the international CEIPI Summer School 2026 in Strasbourg, the IP Expertise Demand Index was presented in a setting that could hardly have been more appropriate. CEIPI, the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies at the University of ...

Robotics and autonomous systems are no longer only about building machines that execute predefined movements. They increasingly combine mechanical engineering, sensors, embedded software, AI models, control logic, operational data, cloud connectivity ...

Quantum technology presents an unusual communication challenge for intellectual property firms. It is scientifically complex, commercially promising and still characterised by considerable uncertainty about which technical architectures, applications ...

Industrial IoT is no longer only about connecting machines or collecting operational data. It is increasingly changing how industrial companies understand, stabilize and improve complex production systems. In adhesive, coating and functional material ...

Every digital business model depends on data. It may be product data, usage data, sensor data, customer data, training data, platform data, diagnostic data, transaction data, location data, performance data, or data generated by connected devices and ...

Digital transformation is often discussed as if it were mainly about software, platforms, cloud systems, data analytics and artificial intelligence. That is understandable because many of the most visible changes of the last two decades have happened ...

Smart Manufacturing has entered a phase where connectivity itself is no longer the story. The harder question is what companies can still control once industrial products generate data, depend on software, rely on standards, interact with platforms an ...

Industrial IoT is increasingly becoming a question of platform control. In many connected manufacturing systems, value is no longer created only by a machine, a sensor, a software function, or one protected technical feature. It is created by the way ...

Many companies have more IP than their leadership teams actively see. They have patents, trademarks, designs, software, data, trade secrets, technical documentation, customer knowledge, market insights, contractual positions, platform access, standard ...

GreenTech is often presented through images of solar parks, wind turbines, hydrogen plants, batteries, recycling systems and smart grids. These images are powerful because they make sustainable transformation visible, but they can also create a mislea ...