Enhancing Competitiveness through Crowdsourcing
The client was a VC funded start-up based in Silicon Valley that had developed an open innovation based solution to patent searches. It was eager to explain the advantages of its open innovation business model to client prospects and in a second step to expand also its services into Europe. Our Contribution We prepared a […]
Promoting Competitiveness through IP Audits
Technology Transfer Offices in this country were inadequately monitored. The funding institution had thus difficulties determining the return on investments as they related to IP. Our Contribution We set up an IP monitoring system that allowed the funding institution to get a better grasp of its investments. Impact Our IP monitoring system is compulsory throughout […]
Promoting Competitiveness for University IP
Subsequent to reforms that attributed the ownership of IP to Universities this country was faced with the challenge of establishing functioning Technology Transfer Offices. Against this context, OxFirst was invited to provide a range of toolkits that helped develop a Technology Transfer context beneficial to this country’s economy. Our Contribution In a first step we […]
Promoting Competitiveness for University IP
Subsequent to reforms that attributed the ownership of IP to Universities this country was faced with the challenge of establishing functioning Technology Transfer Offices. Against this context, OxFirst was invited to provide a range of toolkits that helped develop a Technology Transfer context beneficial to this country’s economy. Our Contribution In a first step we […]
Enhancing Competitiveness through Crowdsourcing
The client was a VC funded start-up based in Silicon Valley that had developed an open innovation based solution to patent searches. It was eager to explain the advantages of its open innovation business model to client prospects and in a second step to expand also its services into Europe. Our Contribution We prepared a […]
Promoting Competitiveness in Open Source Software
The client was eager to promote public policy of benefit to the open source community. It approached us with the question how it could best sketch out the economic impact of open source software in the U.S. Our Contribution We established the economic argument by illustrating how Open Source Software helps create jobs and by […]
Fostering Competitiveness by Optimizing Costs
Universities in this client country have so far hardly embraced the concept of efficiency. With funding primarily received by the public sector there was also no particular pressure to assure the most effective use of resources. The donor was thus eager to promote ‘value for education’ and assure that universities are run in the most […]
Economic Impact of Patent Offices
Various international organisations invited us to assess the potential of management reforms of intellectual property offices in developing countries. Our Approach We assessed the training needs, the institutional potential and established how and where further technical assistance will be needed. We also re-designed the patent offices and set up a novel organisational infrastructure. Impact Our […]
Economic Impact of IP Development Aid
One donor of IP related development aid was eager to assess the impact of IP related development assistance. In particular it was keen to establish the economic return on various IP related financial support schemes. Our Approach We used an institutional economics framework to map the impact of technical assistance on development aid. Impact We […]
Licensing Strategy
The value proposition of IP is intrinsically intertwined with the ability to enforce one’s rights. However in many different jurisdictions around the world it is exceptionally difficult to enforce IP. Against this background we were approached by a series of different rightholders asking us how to ensure adequate payment of licensing rates and how to […]