Mika Waris Towards Better Practices in Innovation Process - Finnish IPR-strategy Mika Waris WIPO Forum on IP and SMEs for IP Offices and other relevant.
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Mika Waris Towards Better Practices in Innovation Process - Finnish IPR-strategy Mika Waris WIPO Forum on IP and SMEs for IP Offices and other relevant Institutions in OECD 14.-15.9.2009 Mika Waris Presentation 1. Explain background of InnoInfo-project 2. Illustrate some conclusions 3. Finnish National IPR-strategy Mika Waris The essential part of innovation environment is the IP-system Employment Productive business, competitiveness, growth Ideas, entrepreneurship Innovationfriendly environment Innovation environment INTEGRATION - financing - support services - environment of know-how - network of expertise - IP-system - information sources - ways of protection Enterprise Finland IdeaPilot Enterprise Europe Network Mika Waris IP-system • means to empower marketing • tool for product development • necessity for networking • means to control business patent utility modelt design right trade mark trade name copyright competitor information trade secret technical information informal protection Mika Waris Innovation process Fuzzy-front-end Detailed planning Marketing After sales Concept planning NPD = New Product Development TSG = Technology Stage Gate Lähde: Production Mika Waris Development commits the costs Mika Waris Applied and granted patents - 92 - 01 domestic companies in Finland 100 % 90 % 80 % 70 % 60 % 50 % Myönnetty Granted 40 % 30 % 20 % 10 % 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mika Waris INNOINFO research project Objectives ● The literature study of the theoretical and empirical background of innovation activities and innovation policy. ● The exploration of reasons, content, characteristics and extent of doubling R&D and patenting efforts (e.g. strategic protection of knowledge, lack of information of parallel projects, bias of overlapping R&D in certain technological, industrial or scientific fields, etc.) ● Empirical investigation of patent decisions by NBPR ● The identifying of the main reasons for “unhealthy” overlapping R&D efforts and the exploration of opportunities to reduce “unhealthy” overlapping patenting and innovation in national innovation environment. Participants ● Tekes, NBPR, VTT INF, VTT Innovation Studies IP Landscape Mika Waris Domestic patent applications 2000 - 2005 In Finland 11 775 33,2 % of R 10,4 % 537 kpl no state-of-art & D is redundant 89,6 % existing state-of-art 4 609 kpl it means 2 billion euros/year 23 % withdrawn 33,2 % lack of novelty Applications 11 775 Granted patents 5 144 (43,7 %) Mika Waris Conclusions By developing relevant information services and service providers Remarkable improvement effects are expected to company, branch and macro level performance of industries In particular, the improvement of competitiveness of SMEs is expected Mika Waris These conclusions led to remarkable contributions in Finnish National IPR-strategy Mika Waris Finnish National IPR-strategy Target areas for measures • Skills - IPR-training in universities and polytechnics - Business strategy – new business literacy - International contractual competency in IPRs - Exploitation of patent information • The efficiency and clarity of the rights - The legislation concerning IPRs - Patent quality - The high standar and speed of court proceedings Mika Waris Finnish National IPR-strategy Target areas for measures … • Competition policy and functionality of markets based on IPRs - Use of IPRs as company assets - Valuation of IPRs - The usability of patent information • Functional and economic efficiency of IP-system - Public financing and counselling actors to promote the IPR competence and use of patent information - Especially among start-ups - Covering also copyrights and informal protection Mika Waris Finnish National IPR-strategy Main message New business paradigm! New Business Literacy! IP Landscape Mika Waris Open innovation vs. closed innovation Source: Mika Waris Closed innovation vs. open innovation paradigm: 1) R&D in Finland 2) R&D in the ROW 0,7 % 99,3 % IP Landscape Mika Waris Source: Conclusion: Integration of IP in business Mika Waris = New Business Literacy IDEA DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION FEED-BACK Technical development Commercialization, marketing Technology surveys State-of-art Screening Competitor survey Trade secrets Freedom to operate Search for technical solution Partners search MOBdecisions Novelty search Patent, design, trade mark Copyrights Informal protection Control strategy Competitor follow-up Licencing MARKET Opposition search Mika Waris Thank you!