Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
WIPO Survey of Intellectual Property Services of European Technology Incubators by World Intellectual Property Organization Pdf
The paper includes the results of a questionnaire-based pilot survey of intellectual property (IP) services to tenant firms in a subset of high-tech European incubators. It provides an overview of (a) the importance of IP for innovation management, (b) reasons why small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business start-ups make inadequate use of the IP system, making a case for providing IP services to the tenants of incubators, (c) the extent to which IP services are provided in or by a subset of surveyed European incubators(d) range, type and modality of IP services provided to firms within incubators.