Intellectual Property Management for Start-ups : Enhancing Value and Leveraging the Potential

Introduction -- How to increase the success of innovative start-ups with intellectual property: an introductory overview -- Part I: The Start-up’s View -- Israeli start-ups and ecosystem -- IP as a new value driver for sustainable start-ups -- Mining IP: A story of Australian start-ups in the Global Mining industry -- IP and start-ups in the context of Florianópolis, the Silicon Island of Brazil -- Part II: The Investor’s View -- “IP is paramount:” The significance of IP in early-stage start-up investment decisions -- The role of IP and intangible assets in tech private placements: An investor’s view -- What’s the big idea? The crossroads between investment and IP -- Intellectual property-backed financing -- Part III: The Corporation’s View -- IP as an important value driver for start-up strategies in established companies -- Strategic uses of IP: Applying lessons from large companies to start-ups -- How the life sciences industry handles IP in start-ups -- Mind the gap: Business and cultural aspects for start-up collaboration in Japan -- Part IV: The University’s View -- Experimentation in academic technology commercialization -- A university perspective with a South African flavour -- The technology transfer office as facilitator between researchers and investors: A German perspective -- Managing IP-related tensions between universities and spin-offs -- Part V: The Global IP Office’s View -- Tools of the trade: A trading nation’s view on the value of IP rights for start-ups -- Market success for inventions: Patent commercialization scoreboard and innovation support -- Raising IP awareness of start-ups: A French perspective -- Strategic considerations and the seed-to-maturity model when establishing the ideal IP portfolio in the start-up context -- Part VI: The Advisor’s View -- An introduction to IP rights and formal and informal protection strategies -- Important aspects of IP for start-ups: Strategies for avoiding common pitfalls -- Blind as a mole? How patent data can help start-ups to compete -- Technical patent circumvention: How start-ups can get around infringed patents.