Business Support Services on Intellectual Property - National Board of Patents and Registration in Finland WIPO Eighth Annual Forum On IP and SMEs
Presentation 1. The Background 2. The Strategy of Developing and Disseminating IP Support Services 3. The Justification (why this approach)
The Drivers supporting the Furthering of the IP-system: The Finnish National Innovation Strategy The Finnish National IPR-strategy The Emerging Business Paradigm: Open Innovation
The essential part of innovation environment is the IP-system Employment Productive business, competitiveness, growth Ideas, entrepreneurship Innovation environment - financing - support services INTEGRATION Innovationfriendly environment - environment of know-how - network of expertise - IP-system - information sources - ways of protection IdeaPilot Enterprise Finland IPeuropAware Enterprise Europe Network
IP-system in Innovation Process means to empower marketing tool for product development necessity for networking means to control the business informal protection formal protection competitor information technical information
IP as a Business Tool The strategy of disseminating IP support services 1. Embedding IP-matters to everyday business planning for SMEs 2. Integrating IP-services to Public Business Services
EMBEDDING IP-MATTERS TO SMEs BUSINESS Integration of IP matters in business = New Business Literacy IDEA DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION Technical development Commercialization, marketing FEED-BACK Technology surveys Screening State-of-art Search for technical solution MOBdecisions Competitor follow-up MARKET PENETRATION Competitor survey Freedom to operate Partners search Novelty search Patent, design, trade mark Licencing Opposition search BRANDING Trade secrets Copyrights Agreements Informal protection Innovation Process
Integration to Public Services Next steps: 1. Training programme for Public Business Advisors 2. Creating National IP Search Service Standard (first-look) 3. Integrating IP Search and Advisory Services to Public Business Services
Integration to Public Services Training Programmes for Public Business Advisors Customer segments: Training groups: Born Global-companies n. 150 Public Business Advisors Domestic Companies 300-500 Public Business Advisors Start-Up s, Private inventors > 1 000 Public Business Advisors Training programmes based on customer segment needs
Integration to Public Services The National Network for Co-operation Ministry of Empl. and Ec.De. Foundation for Finnish Inventions TEKES (National Technology and Innovation Agency) Technology Industries in Finland, The Federation of Finnish Enterprises, The Confederation of Finnish Industries, The Chambers of Commerce, Regional development companies SME s EED-Centres Jobs and Society Regional financiers VTT (Technical Research Centre) Centres of Expertise, technology centres, science parks, business incubators Start-up s Universities, polytechs Regional BSP:s Private consultants Patent attorneys R&D networks
Integration to Public Services Creating National IP Search Service Partners: Berggren Oy Kolster Oy UPM comments Borenius & Co NBPR VTT Information Services IPR Partners IP Information Services Foundation for Finnish Inventions Papula-Nevinpat Oy Leitzinger Oy Patiq Oy
Integration to Public Services Private-public-partnership Public Business Service sector Subsidized business services (Public Business Advisors) Public data storages Patent information, other ip-information Information services, (Private Business Consultants) Private Business Service Sector (based on call for bids)
Integration to Public Services New Information services provided by Private Sector
The Justification Domestic patent applications 2000-2005 33 % lack of novelty 90 % existing state-of-the-art 10 % no state-of-the-art, Incremental inventions Radical inventions Applications (About 12 000) Granted patents (43,7 %)
The Justification Conclusions By developing relevant information services and service providers and using them Remarkable improvement is expected to company, branch and macro level performance of industries In particular, the improvement of competitiveness of SMEs is expected (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, National Board of Patents and Registration)
The Justification SME s success factors in the innovation process? (Dr. H. Forsman, Lappeenranta University of Technology, 2009) New information Incremental innovations Networking Perceive new possibilities Evaluate risks Agility to change
The Justification Closed Innovation vs. Open Innovation R&D in ROW 99,3 % R&D in Finland 0,7 % competitor? partner?
New Business Literacy Intellectual Asset Management
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