Tag: Business Model

How can new digital business models be designed and protected? How can digital patent be used to protect solutions in IoT and Industry 4.0? These are the topics of the workshop using current industry best practice case studies from renowned companies: ...

The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes bigger in all industries and opens potentials, but also raises questions for IP. What is patentable, what are the relevant judicial decisions regarding AI and what is the current practice in Europe to p ...

The German Design Council, initiated by the German Bundestag and endowed by the German industry, presented this year’s international German Innovation Awards in Berlin on May 28th.

The building industry is a very traditional and conservative trade. To develop new digital business models the Umdasch Group founded Umdasch Group Ventures, which is an independent company next to the formwork company Doka with the purpose to develop ...

Kleenex is synonymous with paper tissues, Aspirin with pain killers, Scotch with adhesive tape, and BIC with correction pens. In fact, these brands have lent their names to entire product categories, evoking direct associations with quality and functi ...

Advances in digital technologies have led to new opportunities for business model innovation. This is not just true for digital-born companies like Facebook, Google, or Apple. Increasingly, it also applies to companies from traditional sectors, indust ...

At the beginning of the day, the questions in the room were “Is anything new with Industry 4.0 and IP?” and “Is it possible to protect anything at all in digital business models?”. At the end of the conference, the last panel discussion summed up the ...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the next technological quantum leap began to emerge, which is now known as the fourth industrial revolution – or Industry 4.0 for short. New technologies permit the development of new business models. In general ...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the next technological quantum leap began to emerge, which is now known as the fourth industrial revolution – or Industry 4.0 for short. New technologies permit the development of new business models.

The Internet of Things (IoT) or the fourth industrial revolution is neither a short-term phenomenon nor a buzzword. Single enterprises are not capable of influencing the trend towards a digitization of business processes, nor can they change the globa ...