Center for Intellectual Property Studies
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The Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP) is a development center at the intersection of industry and academia facilitating knowledge-based business. Founded in a joint effort between Chalmers University of Technology and School of Business, Economics, and Law at Göteborg University, both in Göteborg, Sweden, CIP is today a world-leading actor in the area of intellectual property and entrepreneurship. CIP’s mission is to drive and facilitate a shift to an intellectualized economy for the benefit of industry, academia and society as a whole.
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[edit] CIP's contributions to society
To deliver on its mission CIP is engaging in four main activities including education, research, practice and collaboration fully integrated in one versatile platform. Today that platform comprises Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School, School of Intellectual Capital Management, CSE Incubation and Holding AB, and CIP Professional Services AB. The wealth creating contributions from CIP’s activities for society are people equipped to handle the complexity of knowledge-based business, leading edge research and development to support knowledge-based business, creation and facilitation of an infrastructure for knowledge-based business, and the conversion of intellectual assets into actual capital.
[edit] The People
Equipping students with skills and tools necessary to create and facilitate knowledge-based business
CIP’s education activities comprise master’s programs, executive educations and courses on undergraduate, graduate and PhD levels. Employing an interdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of management, economics, law and technology, CIP prepares its students for doing business in the intellectualized economy by applying action-based pedagogic models building on role-plays, simulation exercises, and real-life projects. Exceptional achievers among CIP’s master’s students are also offered exclusive internships with leading international technology companies and universities (almost 30 internships were offered during the summer of 2006 including Nokia, Ericsson, PARC, P&G, Thomson, Yale, Harvard etc). CIP's aim is to equip the entrepreneurs and business leaders of tomorrow with leading-edge instrumental skills and tools to manage the increasing complexity of knowledge-based business, while upholding the highest ethical standards in the global reality of the modern world.
[edit] The Toolbox
Research and development to support knowledge based business
CIP’s theoretical outlook is that adaptation to the intellectualized economy requires a completely new toolbox available for business creation. CIP’s research and development in the area of intellectual property and entrepreneurship focuses on understanding and explaining the most fundamental value creation mechanisms in modern society, while packaging the results in operational business tools. As an integrated process permeating all activities at CIP it creates the content foundation for its operations. To succeed in its ambitions CIP builds and maintains several broad networks of academics and professionals within the administrative, business and judicial arenas, providing world-leading expertise in key processes for wealth creation in the intellectualized economy. Coordinated with operatively designed think tanks, real-life projects in CIP Professional Services and other initiatives these networks help CIP create practice from its theoretical foundation, and to reform its theory through practice.
[edit] The Infrastructure
Creating and facilitating an infrastructure for knowledge-based business
Strongly dedicated to support society in utilizing the full potential of the intellectualized economy, while ensuring international competitiveness and welfare, CIP is highly engaged in building regional, national and international innovation platforms primarily in the fields of ICT, bioscience and creative industries. CIP is also participating in setting the future economic agenda via international organizations including the World Bank, OECD, the UN, the EU and Scanbalt, being a key actor in initiatives such as the EU Innovative Medicine Initiative, Intellectual Capital for Communities, New Club of Paris, the ICGEB North-South Dialogue, Scanbalt IP Knowledge Network and others. CIP is also organizing several conferences and other arenas for meetings including the CIP FORUM, which may be the most important conference in Europe on knowledge-based business.
[edit] The Capital
Creating ventures and other intellectual capital
Each year CIP launches 10-15 new start-ups in highly attractive technology areas, including among others nanotech, biomedicine, biotech, sensor technology, fiber optics, energy solutions, and information and communication technology. CIP actively manages the ventures with a focus on strong returns and sustainable value creation. CIP facilitates the process in all steps, from selecting and evaluating business ideas, operationally packaging them, choosing and designing appropriate business models and business ventures around them, to long-term ownership governance. CIP also provides investment opportunities for external investors. Via its operational arm, CIP Professional Services, CIP is also operationally supporting corporations, universities and public organizations, in order to facilitate and create knowledge-based business and innovation.
