Innovation & Intellectual Property

ADVANCING COMPETITIVE INNOVATION

aexa edea assists generating IP relevant, market oriented innovation-flow

competitive innovation: market-oriented, IP-aware, endeavoring teams

aexa edea assists with innovation strategy and tactics, including streamlining portfolio of projects supporting the development of a relevant innovation-flow.


aexa edea assists in identifying innovation threats and opportunities, including IP, in view of the business strategy and enhancing the innovation process in light thereof.


aexa edea assists with setting up project teams, including interdisciplinary networking with outside skills and resources and synergies with relevant market partners.


Different industries, companies and projects often require different approaches to innovation. Common to most are the main steps of the innovation “chain-value” including:

a) the generation of ideas,
b) respective selection and resource allocation;
c) timely implementation (often the most challenging).


Other aspects that are common include:

- defining an IP management strategy: this should be aligned with the development stage, business model and financing strategy;
- developing competitive (and IP) intelligence: activities addressing future direction and shape of relevant technologies and industries.


Related issues include how to organize human and information resources in view of highest innovation productivity and strategic goals.

DEVELOPING MARKET-AWARE IP PORTFOLIOS

aexa edea assists building cost-effective competitive IP Portfolios

IP management: the same investment may provide very different scopes and efficacy of IP protection and value…

aexa edea assists developing competitive IP Portfolios, aligned with the overall business strategy and often uncovering further related opportunities.


aexa edea assists optimizing and hedging IP costs and risks, including by anticipating risks of conflict, securing freedom to operate and optimizing the resulting competitive scope of protection.


aexa edea provides technical support to IP conflicts, including offensive and defensive cases and abridging different IP classes.


IP management goes (much) beyond drafting patents. An optimized IP portfolio often includes trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial designs and trade secrets, the relative proportion of which basically depends on the type of industry, technology life-cycle and business strategy.


In general, activities of IP (portfolio) management include:

- IP analysis and monitoring (including “Freedom-to-Operate”, “target IP intelligence” analysis and ongoing “IP vigilance”)
- expert IP assessment of new ideas and drafting of respective applications
- business oriented, diversified IP portfolio development.


IP management typically considers various levels of goals, such as:

- avoiding IP threats and hedging IP risks (including via cross-licensing);
- protecting R&D results and related prospective “monopoly margins”;
- licensing out non-critical IP rights. 

ASSET MANAGING INTANGIBLE ASSETS

aexa edea assists with optimizing returns from patents and know-how

intangible assets: qualified people, information resources, IP portfolio, brand recognition…

aexa edea provides general advice on developing competitive intangible assets, including innovation teams and IP Portfolios, in particular patents and know-how, in line with business strategy.


aexa edea assists with due-diligence and valuation of IP Portfolios, including different types thereof and as part of different business transactions


aexa edea assists with different IP transactions ranging from seed financing of IP, commercialization of IP Portfolios and more complex transactions based upon IP Portfolios.


Management of intangible assets (IA) requires developing a holistic strategy that goes beyond IP, since know-how, human resources and information resources are among key components of intangible assets in any given project/ institution, and key-drivers of IP development.


Often barely showing up in accounting statements, they are widely regarded to account for substantial fractions of the total market value of many companies (both publicly traded and privately held). 


Typically, each type of IA gets a particular, often dedicated approach within an organization.

Besides of IA strategy and valuation, other relevant activities include assembling specific IP vehicles (e.g., “special patent funds”). 

SOME OF THE WORK WE DO

aexa edea assists most aspects relating to strategic management of innovation, IP and intangible assets, in particular their know-how and patent portfolios, specially in view of asset managing their value.

Competitive Innovation

the type of "pipeline" and the quality of the information available there along often determine the resulting value and opportunities

Competing IP analysis:
ranging from extensive assessments of prior art (“freedom to operate”) to ongoing surveillance of relevant IP landscape;

IP Portfolio development:
attaining a cost-efficient IP protection and ROI, including advising on the mix of registered IP and unregistered forms of IP;

IP risks and conflicts:
anticipating risks of conflict, preparing supporting assessments and advising both offensive and defensive IP conflicts

IP Portfolios

Know how, patents and other IP often provide enhanced market advantages and return opportunities

Strategy and tactics:
advice to the overall approach to innovation, means required and relevant “go to market” and “time to market” of projects

Technology scouting:
international surveillance of market developments and search for complimentary technology best-fits

Brain-power networking:
mostly for interdisciplinary complement of innovation teams at specific projects with synergistic skills and know how

IP Asset Management

IP-Proficient ventures often present more business opportunities and the highest return on innovation

General advisory:
developing competitive intangible assets, including innovation teams and IP Portfolios, in view of commercialization;

IP transactions:
including due-diligence and valuation of IP Portfolios and assists with different IP transactions (e.g., licensing, pooling)

IP-leveraged ventures:
ranging from seed financing of IP, commercialization of IP Portfolios and more complex transactions based upon IP Portfolios

SOME OF THE FIELDS WE WORK

aexa edea works with business ventures in different stages of
development, active in different industries, using different
technologies and addressing different users, thus harnessing network and context externalities. 

Consumer Goods

tradition-rich, international brand expanding into new segments

"Aexa Edea has become part of our Innovation team, providing ongoing assistance in anticipating IP conflict risks and in streamlining ideas in view of developing an IP Portfolio providing freedom to operate in a market of increasing competition.

Aexa Edea’s contribution has proven important to the success of our organization."

 - Innovation Managing Director, Consumer Goods Corporation

Distributed Energy

start-up with innovative “out-of-the-panel” solutions

"IP front-loading is often of paramount importance to start-up companies but can easily become a significant investment and a major disclosure of relevant know-how.

Aexa Edea is advising us from day one on the advancement of a pipeline of patents and know-how, so as to manage their costs and degree of disclosure in close relation with our go to market strategy."

 - Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Renewable Energy Industry

Information Systems

core skills R&D team with a wide-scope of potential applications

"Aexa Edea works with us mostly in aligning R&D with market opportunities, in securing IP and in finding prospective licensees for the technology solutions we develop.

Sometimes Aexa also uncovers additional application possibilities for said solutions."

 - Head of Department, Information Systems Research Institute

Venture Capital

International partnership seeking early stage investment opportunities

"We have exposure to a diversified deal flow of mostly early stage innovation projects. In most cases we count on Aexa Edea to assist on due diligence of such opportunities and supporting further IP development."

 - Managing Partner, Venture Capital Partnership

ABOUT

European partnership assembling pool of knowledge in different scientific fields and in the areas of Industrial Design, Product Development, IP Law, Strategic Marketing and Investment Management.

Pool of know-how: in different scientific and technology fields, as well as certain industrial application areas, and along the areas of Industrial Design, IP Law, Strategic Marketing and Investment Management, available in the most representative European languages.

Basic competences: integrated delivery of pool of know-how (as required), own experience in leading competitive innovation management and IP management across different countries, industries and projects, proactive participation in the innovation & intellectual property processes, assisting networking with other innovation resources and accessing to other financial means, business results oriented approach.


Underlying goal: participation and long-term involvement in different projects, team-up with different institutions across different technology fields and industries, in view of enhancing respective competitive innovation, IP productivity and value of intangible assets.


SERVICES

Services extend across three main subjects (competitive innovation, intellectual property and intangible assets management), and their scope and depth are substantially determined by the type of industry, technology development stage, business development stage and set-up factors (prevailing culture, strategy).

Services vary in their scope and intensity as required by each case, and may comprise support to the planning and development according to business development stage.

Typically, services are rendered on an ongoing, systematic basis, so as to maximize productivity and results in a medium-/ long-term horizon. 


INDUSTRIES

Developed or is developing activities relating to innovation and intellectual property in the following industries:

-energy systems and technology
-information systems and technology
-construction and production systems and technology
-food and consumer goods
-seaborne and airborne means

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