Tag: Digital Transformation

When manufacturing companies undergo the digital transformation, is there a kind of blueprint which they can follow to transform the IP strategy and operations into the digital paradigm? This is the question of the following research project. Machine/ ...

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 ...

The worldwide spending on digital transformation (DX) is projected to reach 1.78 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022. This spending is necessary, since digital transformation must be more than the digitalization of existing business processes, but the creat ...

The ageing of societies leads to a higher number of elderly people requiring some kind of assistive technology. Assistive technology comprises all technologies which support persons with disability in their daily lives. This includes technologies from ...

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 ...

Netflix Inc. is one of the most successful entertainment media companies of all times. Netflix Inc. originally began its ascent in 1998 by providing services to customers through means of mailing out physical copies of movies, shows, video games and o ...

The latest data from the European Patent Office (EPO) on patent activities within the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) shows the dramatic development with a global growth in IPFs of 1,400% since the year 2000 and a growth of 54% in the last three ye ...

New research project at MIPLM about smart home appliances and the changing risk exposure due to digital business models: Analysis of the changing patent infringement risk situation in a digital transformation scenario. Currently, the fourth industrial ...

Innovation and Innovation Management are pressing topics in the current era of the digital transformation. Here, multiple stages can be differentiated. Those stages are the digitization, the digitalization, and the digital transformation. The differen ...