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 ...

The book combines comprehensive knowledge with applied skills to strategically transform innovations into viable businesses for commercial or social ends and provides researchers and students of Business, Science, Technology and Engineering discipline ...

During the 28th and 30th of April LES international and the EPO organize a mixed in-person and live streaming conference in Singapore. It is part of the High-growth technology Business Conference series by LESI and the EPO, which was kicked off in 201 ...

The Coronavirus pandemic requires an adjustment of all organizational processes in the field of intellectual property rights and patenting. In this regard, the pandemic had a considerable, however not purely negative impact on patenting in the life sc ...

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 ...

The DIN standard 77006 (published in June 2020) complements the contents of DIN 9001 (DIN EN ISO 9001:2015-11) for the area of quality in IP management. The standard outlines how to apply IP management in companies and gives insights in the definition ...

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 ...

With the ever-growing internet and more and more companies starting their online business, the availability for premium domains becomes smaller and the battles become fiercer. There are millions of websites, all with unique domain names. In such a cro ...

AI can paint, compose and translate, and its results are often indistinguishable from human works. The ability to create something new is associated with the human trait of creativity, and this is often considered to be a central ability of human natu ...

Through the digital transformation the complexity in the field of IP and innovation becomes higher and higher. This is due to rising rates of patent applications and increased competition in new digital technologies by companies from global innovation ...