Welcome
Welcome to the latest issue of IP Matters, from Coller IP Management.
With the tumultuous economic times around us and businesses concerned about sales and profit margins, it could be easy for organisations to forget that one of the greatest business threats comes not just from lack of sales but from the threat of not protecting, or fully valuing, your intellectual property.
In this issue we focus on our recent work with academia. This is a topical issue, as the government is currently undertaking a review of how universities can use their IP to best effect and its findings are due to be published shortly and discussed at a conference in November. Jim Asher, our COO, describes the opportunities emerging in the academic and PSRE sectors.
We are also working with organisations in the West Midlands to help them with IP issues, and a conference, also in November, will showcase what has been achieved to date.
Finally, we thought you might like an insight into how we use specific tools and techniques to help our clients. While we by no means rely on these alone, they can be very helpful in understanding and solving the IP-related problems of the organisations we deal with.
As Always, we welcome views and comments, so please email them to us at Coller IP Management. Jackie Maguire. CEO - October 2008
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Review of IP in Education Due Imminently The higher education market is facing increasing global competition. Earlier this year John Denham, the universities secretary, announced his aim to build, in conjunction with UK universities, a 10 to 15 year framework for the expansion of the sector. This will include a review of intellectual property.... more.. University Challenge Many universities, Public Sector Research Establishments and other public sector organisations, such as the NHS, are actively facing the challenge of capturing, protecting and commercialising the Intellectual Property (IP) generated by researchers .So, how well equipped are research organisations to meet this challenge? ... more.. Tools and Techniques For many organisations it does not matter how the answers to problems are arrived at as long as the problem is solved in the right way. However, getting to the right solution often depends on the way the problem is understood and analysed. For those who are not familiar with our approach and the kinds of tools we use, we thought it might be useful to give you a brief overview... more. A Fillip for West Midlands Businesses At a conference to be held on Tuesday 11th November at West Bromwich Albion Football Club, Coller IP Management, a specialist in intellectual property management, evaluation and investment services, and Fillip, a forum funded by Advantage West Midlands to provide help with IP issues to West Midlands companies, will host a discussion on IP issues ... more... Coller IP Management in the Press The following links will take you to some recent press coverage of Coller IP Management Acquisition Finance Magazine |
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