Joint venture licensing is used by both large and small companies. In the case of large companies, the goal of the JV partnering strategy is to acquire more customers, enter new markets or gain certain efficiencies, such as promotional costs. For startups and early stage companies, joint venture licensing is a good strategy to reduce operational costs and accelerate their growth.
I often speak with startups and experienced business owners about different ways they can use licensing to make their business more profitable. And I always get the same response – why has no one ever told them about these strategies before! That’s when I realized I needed to offer a training program just for startups and business owners to share the secrets of how to use licensing to launch a startup and grow a business.
April 26th was World Intellectual Property Day. If you’re not familiar with World Intellectual Property Day, it’s a global event that celebrates the achievements that IP and innovation create in the world around us. This year, it focused on IP in the sports industry, and the importance of IP to […]
For many medical device and biotech companies, their specialty is knowing how to develop and get their technologies ready for the marketplace. The problem is they’ve never produced and sold a medical device or technology. And that’s where they face one of the biggest risks in the medical device industry […]
You don’t have to generate revenues to increase your bottom line. In fact, some of the largest companies in the world, such as Texas Instruments, Mattel, Caterpillar, Google and others increase their profits without selling anything. And you can do the same thing. Big Corporations use the R&D tax credits […]
