Intellectual Property Strategy for Entrepreneurs

This second session in our 3-part series explores how firms can protect their technologies while developing strategies to navigate the competitive technology marketplace. It will provide an overview of the key intellectual property tools available to firms and discuss the trade-offs involved in using them. The session will also introduce the fundamentals of patent analytics, showing how information from patent documents can be used to track technology trends and monitor competitors.  

REGISTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY FOR ENTREPRENEURS

The IP and Technology Strategy series is offered in partnership with and led by Professor Alberto Galasso, Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization, Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Alberto Galasso

Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization, Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Alberto Galasso is a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization. He is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He serves as co-editor for the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, as associate editor for the Journal of Industrial Economics and the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and as member of the editorial board for the Strategic Management Journal. His research agenda focuses on the determinants of innovative activity, the management of innovation and the functioning of markets for technology. Alberto is the author of The Management of Innovation (University of Toronto Press).