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We are very happy to announce the start of the ICM Certificate Program for 2025 delivered by the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley in partnership with the Center for Intellectual Property. This year, over 180 students have registered from Chalmers University of Technology, Durham University, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki University, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, University of Gothenburg, and the University of Turku. We are grateful for the university collaboration with Viktor Ström, Nigel Swycher, Volker Röben, Auri Vainio, Hilkka Honkanen, Knut J. Egelie, and Haakon Thue Lie.

The concept of “intellectual capital” was popularized by the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith (Harvard) and operationalized into innovation strategy by David Teece (UC-Berkeley), who is the most highly cited business scholar in the world. ICM was further developed by Ulf Petrusson, Bowman Heiden, and colleagues at Chalmers University and University of Gothenburg into an interdisciplinary master’s education for engineers, lawyers, and business students to prepare them for the leadership challenges of the 21^st century knowledge economy.

The purpose of the program is to provide students across the world with a unique theoretical perspective and the interdisciplinary skills and tools necessary to create and manage strategies for innovation and entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy, in general, and the digital economy, in particular.

We welcome future collaborations with universities around the world as part of our ICM Global initiative.

We are excited to announce CIP FORUM 2025 with the theme of Sustainability, which seems fitting for the year that we commemorate CIP’s 25^th anniversary. The event will be held in Gothenburg, where is all began, from September 28-30. A draft program and registration will be available later this month. Please feel free to reach out if you would like to be a collaboration partner for the event. We are looking forward to celebrating this memorable occasion with all our partners, colleagues, alumni, and friends that have supported CIP over the past 25 years!

This year we are celebrating CIP’s 25th Anniversary, and we would like to start by thanking all our colleagues, partners, and alumni that have contributed over the years to the development of what still remains a unique interdisciplinary center focused on transforming knowledge into wealth and welfare.

This year we plan to launch of a number of new educations, a blog reflecting on the past and future of IP as strategy, policy, and a profession, and a special leadership event focused on the next chapter for the field and for CIP. The year will culminate in CIP FORUM 2025 on Sep. 28-30 in Gothenburg where it all began. More information on these activities will be forthcoming – stay tuned!

Thanks to all our partners and collaborators for an eventful and productive 2024. We are already looking forward to 2025, which will be CIP’s 25^th Anniversary – time flies. We wish everyone a Happy Holidays with family and friends!

CIP is launching a new pilot program focused on Law & Technology in Practice. The interdisciplinary program will be taught by a faculty of legal professionals working in technology companies, law firms, and legaltech ventures. The goal of the program is to provide practical legal training for LLM students to better prepare them for the complexity of global business in the Digital Economy. @Caroline Pamp is the co-Faculty Director for the program that was developed in collaboration with the current LLM students at @School of Business, Economics and Law led by @Jonna Karlstedt. The program will be taught in English emphasizing an international perspective.

CIP is very happy to welcome Billy Jörgensen, Elin Enehed, Philip Idestrom, Emanuel S, Simon Fouladi to the TechLaw Faculty. The initial sessions will center the practical techlaw issues for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Services, Disruptive Technology Ventures, Biotech & Pharma, and emerging LegalTech Ventures. More information on the program sessions will follow shortly.

CIP has now completed the Business of Intellectual Property (BIP) Executive Education Program for 2024. We had a wonderful diverse group of 33 participants from over 15 firms. A big thanks to our faculty, Ruud Peters, Bowman Heiden, Maaike van Velzen, and Roberto Castagno for delivering another great program. More information on BIP 2025 schedule will be published soon. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

CIP Director, Bowman Heiden, is chairing an upcoming HTB Forum on Open Innovation focused on CampX, the startup innovation hub at Volvo Group.

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CIP recently welcomed 33 participants from a diverse group of technology firms to its Business of Intellectual Property Executive Education in Gothenburg. The first module, which is focused on building an IP value mindset, was led by Ruud Peters, who is the co-faculty director of the program together with Bowman Heiden. At CIP, we regard Ruud as the G.O.A.T of value-driven IP management given his enormously successful track record building the IP & Standards organization at Philips and launching many entrepreneurially IP-related ventures during his tenure. Here, in the picture, Ruud is sharing his wisdom with his classic tough-love approach. The second module will be in October, where the participants will present their home company assignment and broaden their thinking of IP from a strategic business management starting point. More to come!

We are very pleased to hear that our CIP alumnus Viktor Ström will receive the Hans Werthén Scholarship in 2024!
He is one of the six researchers awarded this year’s scholarships from the Hans Werthén Foundation, for studies and research abroad. The aim is to give young academics the opportunity to develop in other countries and return with new knowledge and experience that can be useful in industry, business or academia in Sweden.

Viktor Ström is a researcher in innovation and entrepreneurship at School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and active in Gothenburg U-GOT KIES – Gothenburg Centre on knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems. He is accepted as a Postdoc at the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, USA. The planned research is about innovation and entrepreneurship, including research collaboration between universities and companies and the connections between acquisitions, entrepreneurship and resilience.

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