Title
WIPO Survey Of Intellectual Property Services Of European Technology Incubators
Author
WIPO
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
Abstract
The paper includes the results of a questionnaire-based pilot survey of intellectual property (IP) services to tenant firms in a subset of high-tech European incubators. It provides an overview of (a) the importance of IP for innovation management, (b) reasons why small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business start-ups make inadequate use of the IP system, making a case for providing IP services to the tenants of incubators, (c) the extent to which IP services are provided in or by a subset of surveyed European incubators (d) range, type and modality of IP services provided to firms within incubators.