Using Symbiotic Innovation to Implement Open Innovation

This 3-minute webcast considers how applying the principles of Symbiotic Innovation—that is, the proactive and concerted operation of spin-out and spin-in, recognizing that these are interdependent activities—can take open innovation to the next level.

Perspectives on Innovation

Organizations view innovation and intellectual property (IP) differently, depending on factors such as size and revenue streams. Because open innovation often brings different types of organizations together, we offer this 5-minute webcast to explain how these views differ. Perspectives discussed include large/medium companies, small businesses and startups, research organizations, and government agencies.
Cutting-Edge Tech: A How-To Guide for Corporate Licensing Officers

Cutting-Edge Tech: A How-To Guide for Corporate Licensing Officers

Published in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine, this article provides step-by-step guidance for where/how to find technologies developed at U.S. universities and government labs. It also provides details on how industry can successfully engage with—and eventually enter a cooperative agreement with—academia and government technology transfer offices and researchers to access these innovations.

The Value Chain

The value chain is an essential tool to identify target markets and prospective licensees for a technology. This 3-minute webcast discusses how to construct and use a value chain to understand the IP landscape in a technology area and identify potential licensees.

Conducting Tech Transfer Interviews with Inventors

Inventor interviews are a key step in all market-based technology assessments and in some preliminary technology screenings. This webcast will help you get the most out of an inventor interview, providing advice the right questions to ask and what to do with the answers.