skip to Main Content

COLLABORATION

CIP builds, maintains and manages networks of international leaders and experts in the field of knowledge-based business from industry, academia and public actors. These networks supports and interacts to the furthest extent possible with all activities promoted, supported, coordinated or managed by the center and the CIP platform. CIP has an industry partner program with key actors such as Philips, Ericsson and Nestlé, collaborating on multiple levels of education and research activities.


 

CIP FORUM 2025 completed

At CIP, we are grateful to everyone who participated in the 25th Anniversary CIP Forum 2025. Thank you for being part of the celebration – you’re support on this long and winding road has made all the difference!

The launch of Connecting the Dots

CIP is happy to announce the launch of its new blog series, CONNECTING THE DOTS, as part of its 25th Anniversary year. The series will feature many of the classic concepts and insights developed through its education, research, and collaboration activities with leading actors in the field of IP strategy and policy. The content will be short and thought-provoking with the goal of inspiring both reflection and action. We not only welcome your feedback, but see it as critical to understanding what the real obstacles are that block progress.

Enjoy the first post,How you define IP determines how you manage itby Bowman Heiden and Ruud Peters. Stay tuned for the next edition!

First module of BIP completed

Last week we completed the first module of the Business of Intellectual Property (BIP) executive education program at @Center for Intellectual Property. The program was attended by 27 participants representing diverse industries with the common goal to increase the value creation potential of IP for their businesses. This first module was delivered by CIP Co-Directors, @Bowman Heiden and @Ruud Peters, with their characteristic tough-love approach based on their over 60 years of combined experience from industry and academia. The participants will now apply the new frameworks in the context of their own companies to internalize what they have learned in support of practical strategic decision making and share their results at the beginning of the second module.

WIPO-U.S. Summer School on Intellectual Property

The WIPO-U.S. Summer School on Intellectual Property is a two-week course that offers a practical overview of IP law in the United States and attracts students and young attorneys, industry professionals, and government officials from around the world.

The Summer School is co-organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)—the United Nations agency focused on IP law in international markets—and IPPI: The IP Policy Institute at The University of Akron School of Law, a Washington, D.C.-area based organization and WIPO’s exclusive U.S. partner for the Summer School program.

June 2-13, 2025 | Weekdays only
Hosted live online via Microsoft Teams
Time zone: Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT), GMT-4

The Business of Intellectual Property – Registration open now!

The registration for CIP’s exclusive executive education program, The Business of Intellectual Property, is now open for 2025. The program takes place in two 3-day modules on June 16-18 and Sep. 1-3 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Participants in the program are primarily from our CIP Partner firms, but each year we reserve 5 open places for companies that are interested to raise the level of their IP management from a strategic business perspective.

The co-faculty directors for the program are Ruud Peters and Bowman Heiden with over 60 years of combined experience working with industry to develop business-driven IP organizations, strategies, and operations that are focused on creating business value as the North Star. The program is taught in our “patented” tough-love approach designed to instigate meaningful development that greatly increases the value and importance of IP in your company. More information can be found on our website.

Warsaw SEP Conference

CIP Director, Bowman Heiden, participated in the Warsaw SEP Conference on Regulatory and Enforcement Developments for Standard Essential Patents on March 6th. His panel session was focused on Assessing policy and legislative efforts related to SEPs, where he provided his views on how SEP-enabled markets are already highly regulated by collective private action, where remaining inefficiencies are best addressed by further innovative market actions as opposed to a heavy governmental regulatory regime. He was joined on his panel by Taraneh Maghame, Rudi Bekkers, Robert Pocknell, Josef Drexl, and moderated by Corin Gittinger.

 

Launch of ICM Certificate Program for 2025

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 21st 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.

CIP FORUM 2025

We are excited to announce CIP FORUM 2025 with the theme of Sustainability, which seems fitting for the year that we commemorate CIP’s 25th 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!

 

Celebrating CIP’s 25th Anniversary

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!

Merry Christmas

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 25th Anniversary – time flies. We wish everyone a Happy Holidays with family and friends!