How can Companies Forecast Patent Portfolio Related Costs?
Predicting the costs of patenting innovations and maintaining a patent portfolio is a crucial part of the budgeting process. However, cost prediction i…
Open Innovation
Inventor Bonus Programs – How they can make or break your patent pipeline
About 15 years ago I was an outside patent counsel for a company that had tasked me with the job of trying to increase the number of invention disclosu…
Why the fast not the big dominate the future
The shared concern of 78 different innovation teams. I spent the last three months meeting with 78 different Fortune 500 innovation teams (yes, lots o…
Working with start-ups? Be more successful at scouting the best ones
When collaborating with a startup, a lot can go wrong. But if you focus on four simple steps, it will be much easier. Start with the scout, be aware of…
Innovation – My Journey
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all what the world needs most are dreamers that do.” Sarah Ban Breathnach Innovati…
Innovation Car Boot Sales and Open Intellectual Property Exchanges
Pulling on the strands of decluttering, Open Source and Crowdsourcing this thought piece considers the challenge of creating an open market for an orga…
Personal, not digital…innovation matchmaking is about people, not just apps, algorithms or data matches
This thought piece is the follow up to Picking the right Innovation Races that looked at Horizon Scanning and the growing list of digital platforms tha…
Broadening the church of Open Innovation
Open Innovation is about increasing the innovation potential of firms by opening them up to new ways of working with external organisations. Whether th…
Power of the Global Crowd
Going it alone, maybe inside your business or working with the wider community? Closed or Open Innovation? In this hyper-connected world which one is g…
Occupying Terra Incognita: How Governments can shape the Future
During the 16th Century when maps of the world moved from being symbolic representations based on Christian teachings to a record of discovered land ma…
New Report Highlights Growth In European R&D
Each year the European Commission release an analysis of the state of research and development in the EU. Their 2017 analysis found that firms based i…
Ensuring you have the talent to be innovative
The role of talent in the innovation process is well established. Not only are organisations striving to ensure they have the brightest people working …
Innovation is dead, long live Innovation (Part Two)
The story for bravehearts, rebels, new kids, pioneers and renegades. Jointly written by Richard Copland and Henra Mayer. A quick recap for those on…