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The article “The importance of patents for innovation appropriation and open financing – A new view” by our researchers Marcus Holgersson and Ove Granstrand was selected as finalist for the best academic paper award at the R&D Management Conference at University of Cambridge, UK. The article investigates different strategies for appropriating value from innovations, and the role patents play for them. The article was announced as one of three finalists among more than 400 submissions at a reception at King’s College during the conference.

Two of our scholars, Marcus Holgersson and Frank Tietze, are organizing an inspirational teaching workshop on intellectual property management. The workshop will take place at University of Cambridge, UK, on Friday 16 September 2016. The workshop will gather both academics and practitioners from around the world who are involved in teaching the many aspects of intellectual property management, primarily to non-law students. The aim is to inspire each other and exchange best practices in IP management teaching. The workshop is by invitation only, but please contact Marcus Holgersson, if you are interested. 

Read more about the workshop here: http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/eitim/

Marcus Holgersson (far left in the photo below) has received a scholarship from the Hans Werthén foundation. The foundation supports young academics in memory of Hans Werthén, a former CEO of Electrolux and chairman of both Electrolux and Ericsson. Holgersson received the scholarship for his research on intellectual property management, which is highly relevant for both Electrolux and Ericsson, both multinational firms in electronics-related industries. Holgersson will use the scholarship to finance a visiting scholar stay in the US.

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Our researcher Ove Granstrand recently spent a week in Iran, invited by The Iranian Association for Management of Technology (IRAMOT) to give an opening keynote speech at the Fifth International Conference on Management of Technology: “Learning and Technological Innovation in Large Enterprises and Networks”  on 16 -17 December 2015 in Tehran. Ove Granstrand also had discussions with ministers and industry leaders about the important role of  industrial R&D and innovation in an emerging post-sanction economy and gave a couple of academic seminars on related topics.

The micro part of the enclosed slides is from the keynote speech and the macro part from the seminars: Presentation slides from Iran

Committed to supporting the UK industry, IfM’s Centre for Technology Management (CTM) launched the Strategic Intellectual Property Forum (SIPF) earlier this year to help companies understand, manage and exploit their IP. The second SIPF event on Tuesday 8^th December 2015 will focus on IP valuation, which we intend broadly to cover not only approaches to valuing internal IP portfolios, but also the valuation or appraisal of external IP assets (e.g., when undergoing technology acquisitions). The half-day SIPF event will cover different perspectives on this topic from different industry sectors.

Attendance is free of charge, but pre-event registration is required. For programme and registration: http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/sipf-december/