The Art of Merging OI and Intellectual Property Rights

The Ideon website posted information about a June seminar at which four Swedish companies discussed the levels of agreements that need to be in place for open innovation collaborations to work and presented a case study. How can large companies work together with universities, governmental institutions and small companies in an open innovation process and feel like they are getting a good deal and not loosing their intellectual property? What happens if the collaboration is successful, who owns the product? And more importantly, what happens if the joint venture is not successful? How do you strike a good balance between openness and intellectual property rights, without putting a damper on the ideas?

Click here to read a short description of the seminar.

Click here to view a brief video of the seminar.

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