« From Start-Up to Global: Integrate IP for Growth »
Innovative companies consider innovation as a key element to ensure their success and growth. Despite this consideration, numerous Canadian companies do not have an extensive understanding of the way in which the intellectual property (IP) associated with their innovations should be managed and valuated at different stages of their life cycle. Innovative small and medium enterprises (SME) too often perceive the management of IP as a concern for multinationals. However, whatever the size or the stage of the development of a company, IP often presents opportunities for accelerating value creation.
It is the perspective of helping companies better understand how IP can best be used to accelerate value creation, that the 8th International Intellectual Property Forum – Quebec (FORPIQ) is being organized. The Forum will take place in Montreal, on April 16, 2015.
The central theme proposed for the 8th FORPIQ will allow participants to follow the evolution of a typical company, from its creation through various stages of its life-cycle, from an IP perspective. This format will illustrate the strategic use of IP to influence value creation at each stage. This will provide participants with the opportunity to broach different topics from developing a portfolio of IP assets (including patents, trade-marks, industrial designs, copyrights or trade secrets) to valuating these IP assets. The speakers will be asked to take advantage of the chronological format of the program, so that participants may link the different stages of the life-cycle of the company to the related topics.