Sunday Workshops, May 20th

 

1. Building open innovation platforms

Description:

The term “open innovation” is becoming commonplace in the lexicon of knowledge-based business development across all sectors. This workshop will explore the different meanings of “open”, how openness creates value and provide a framework for developing open innovation platforms through models and case examples.

Chairperson: Bo Heiden, Deputy Director, CIP

Speakers:

         Bernard Munos, Eli Lilly

         John Raley, Intellectual Asset Management, Cargill

         Daniel Särefjord, Intellectual Asset Manager, Smith & Nephew

         Noreen Krall, VP, Sun Microsystems

 

2. Best practices for managing and exploiting intellectual property in industrial firms

Description:

In the 21st century all firms will need to transform their industrial process to knowledge-based business processes. This workshop will feature a number of best practice examples of how IP management in creating value and facilitating competitive advantage in traditional industrial firms.

Chairperson:  Bo Heiden, Deputy Director, CIP (acting chair)

Speakers:      

         Giandomenico Testi, SVP, Group IP Exploitation, ABB

         Michael Geoffrey, Chief IP Counsel, USG Corporation

         Marc Karlsson, Director, Innovation & Law, Kongsberg Automotive

         Martin Bader, Managing Partner, BGW and fm Chief IP Counsel, Infineon

 

3. IP, innovation, and ethics in bioscience research

Description:

The reaction of many researchers to the idea of intellectual property is often negative. This workshop will explore the common misconceptions and discuss the opportunities and threats of intellectual property for basic research as well as utilization of research results from an ethics, wealth creation, and welfare perspective.

Chairperson:  Greg Becker, Associate Professor for Bioethics and Philosophy, Jagiellonian University

Speakers:

         Ananda Chakrabarty, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago

         Stephana Patton, Associate, Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge

         Sean O’Connor, Associate Professor, CASRIP

         Richard Wessman, Associate, MAQS

 

4. Virtual Product Design: Developing and leveraging IT-based services and products

Description:

Information technology and intellectual property are two sides of the same coin allowing for knowledge, art and creativity to be captured in virtual products. This workshop will explore how creative efforts can be packaged as leverageable “products” through IT and the management of intellectual assets and property.

Chairperson: Jens Bördin, COO, CIP Professional Services

Speakers:

         Donnie Lygonis, CEO, Playdo

         Michael Stenmark, Creative Director, Playdo

 

5. SMEs in asymetrical collaborations: IPR challenges

Description:

SMEs often have growth strategies requiring cooperation with larger partners, and the challenge is to build an effective protection for their technology and business concepts. However, smaller companies tend to underestimate the Management of their Intellectual Property, and are rapidly confronted with significant disadvantages in their long term relationship with these larger partners.
Discussing various aspects of the Management of Intellectual Property for SMEs in asymetrical collaborations, the ambition of this workshop is to devise a new model for assisting SMEs in defending their Intellectual Property.

Chairperson: Katarina Lundblad Pinnekamp, AdviceIPR, partner in Leogriff

Speakers:

         Ashkan Pouya, Serial Entrepreneur, CEO Diamorph

         Saeid Esmaeilzadeh, Assistant Professor in Material Chemistry at Stockholm University, CTO Diamorph

         Alexander Bjørnå, Patent Counsel, Biotec Pharmacon ASA

         Axel Moulin, partner in Leogriff, Project Manager for NORDIP

 

6. IP Finance and Deal-making

Description:

Though slow to develop the financial community is beginning to recognize intellectual property as a legitimate asset class. This workshop will use case studies to explore the deal-making skills required and opportunities available to IP owners to use their IP as a source of financing through securitization, collateralization, licensing and equity transactions.

Chairperson:  Bruce Berman, President, Brody Berman Associates

Speakers:

         Keith Bergelt, CEO, Paradox Capital

         Ron Laurie, Managing Director, Inflexion Point

         Lars Isacsson, Partner, MAQS

         Malte Koellner, Co-founder and partner, Triangle Venture Capital Group

 

7. University Licensing

Description: For most universities, licensing is a very important business model for technology transfer to industry. However, is there a conflict between making money and facilitating the transfer of technology? This workshop will explore the mission, strategy, and operations of university licensing with experience from some of the world’s most successful universities.

Chairperson: Mats Lundqvist, Director, Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship

Speakers:

               Michael Cleare, CEO, Science and Technology Ventures, Columbia University

               Tony Hickson, Head of Biosciences, Imperial Innovation

               Amir Naiberg, CEO, Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. and Technology Transfer from the Weizmann Institute of Science

               Karen Hersey, fm Senior IP Counsel and Visiting Professor, Franklin-Pierce Law School

 

8. Global licensing strategies

Description: Licensing is perhaps the most important business tool for knowledge-based business. This workshop will explore licensing strategies from the perspective of different industries, objectives, and geographical regions through the experiences of leading practitioners.

Chairperson: Lewis Zaretzki, EVP, Consulting Services, Thinkfire

Speakers:

         Dan McCurdy, President and CEO, Thinkfire

         John Tao, Corporate Director of Technology Partnerships, Air Products

         Kent Richardson, VP, Intellectual Property, Rambus

         Edelbert Häfele, CEO, PATEV (Karlsruhe)

 

9. Managing IP in collaborative bioscience R&D projects

Description:

It is rather safe to say that collaboration is becoming the predominant model for R&D in the bioscience industry as a broad set of actors including universities, SMEs, big industry, healthcare, and government agencies play key roles in the value chain. This workshop is focused on the important use of IP and IP management capabilities to govern these collaborations.

Chairperson: Ajan Reginald, Head of New Business Development, Roche

Speakers:

         Christine Lemke, VP, Business Development, MediGene AG

         Mark Wilson, Director, Collaboration Management Europe, GSK

         Stephen Yoder, Senior Counsel, Head of Licensing and IP, MorphoSys AG

         Richard Rodriguez, Chief, Cancer Branch, Division of Technology Development &Transfer, NIH

 

10. IP-based economic development in developing countries

Description:

It could be said that developing countries struggle both in obtaining access and utilizing other’s intellectual property as well as creating and managing their own. They are of course not alone as developed countries have the same difficulties. This workshop will address examples of how indigenous IP can be created and managed to generate value for developing countries.

Chairperson: Sari Scheinberg, Researcher and Project Leader, Recomate

Speakers:

         Roya Ghafele, Research Associate, Creative and Innovative Economy Center, George Washington University

         Peter Bloch, Co-founder and fm COO, Light Years IP

         Sverker Alänge, Associate Professor, Chalmers

Angela Beckenbauer , Research Associate, Institute of Technology Management, University of St. Gallen