For a corporation to step up their innovation and intellectual asset processes, you need the right training to help key personnel in management and elsewhere understand the opportunities and the needs in these areas. Innovationedge can provide customized training of groups, based on corporate needs, to achieve a variety of deliverables, such as:

• Basic training of groups to familiarize them about intellectual assets and innovation strategy to provide basic knowledge and awareness that will enhance recognition of IA opportunities and strengthen cooperation with Legal.

• Providing basic understanding about best practices in pursuing broad intellectual assets, including business method patents, robust approaches to patents in general, aggressive publication strategies to protect core assets at low cost or to achieve other strategic aims, in- and out-licensing strategies, foreign filing decisions and digital intellectual assets.

• Creating awareness of best practices in open innovation and provide guidance on how to develop and manage alliances that generate value.

• Basic training in the issues around disruptive innovation, including best practices for pursuing opportunities created within the corporation, mitigating external threats, and applying “disruptive intellectual assets” as low-cost tools useful for both defense and offense in dealing with disruptive innovation.

• Training on best practices for innovation systems, including IA review boards, IA councils, IA communities of practice, IA management strategies, and other process-oriented areas.

• Training on finding and strengthening inventions, including tools for building a portfolio around core inventions, tools for strengthening patent filings, and tools for enhancing the value of existing patent estates.

Training sessions can range from two-hour seminars to full-day workshops, as needed. Materials are also provided for participants.