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    What is an Asset?
    Michelle Walker
    • Mar 10
    • 2 min

    What is an Asset?

    I had a lot of new questions after analyzing the survey data. I wouldn’t be able to answer them quickly, so I spent some time thinking...
    Foundations, Grantees, and Intellectual Property Rights
    Michelle Walker
    • Mar 4
    • 2 min

    Foundations, Grantees, and Intellectual Property Rights

    I was a fundraiser for 15 years. The implications of my survey’s findings on who funds, owns, and benefits from intellectual property...
    More Curiosity: What New Questions the Survey Prompted
    Michelle Walker
    • Feb 23
    • 4 min

    More Curiosity: What New Questions the Survey Prompted

    After the analysis of the survey responses was complete, I found myself in a similar state of curiosity that I'd been in before the...
    Q30, Q31, Q32, & Q33: Fundraising and Nonprofit Intellectual Property
    Michelle Walker
    • Feb 11
    • 3 min

    Q30, Q31, Q32, & Q33: Fundraising and Nonprofit Intellectual Property

    Today’s survey data is all about whether nonprofits leverage their intellectual property assets to secure investments, like grants or...
    Q28 & Q29: Nonprofit Staff and Board Recruitment
    Michelle Walker
    • Feb 7
    • 2 min

    Q28 & Q29: Nonprofit Staff and Board Recruitment

    My pre-survey reading also highlighted the less obvious marketplace opportunity of recruiting and retaining people talent (Bingham and...
    Q26 & 27: Nonprofit Scaling and Growth
    Michelle Walker
    • Feb 3
    • 2 min

    Q26 & 27: Nonprofit Scaling and Growth

    My pre-survey reading opened my mind to the number of ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....
    Q24 & Q25: Developing Partnerships with Intellectual Property
    Michelle Walker
    • Feb 1
    • 1 min

    Q24 & Q25: Developing Partnerships with Intellectual Property

    My pre-survey reading enlightened me to the myriad ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....
    Q22 & Q23: Nonprofit Earned Revenue
    Michelle Walker
    • Jan 28
    • 3 min

    Q22 & Q23: Nonprofit Earned Revenue

    I was also curious to know if nonprofit organizations were using their intellectual property assets to generate revenues through their...
    Q18, Q19, Q20 & Q21: Permissions Granted to Licensees
    Michelle Walker
    • Jan 23
    • 3 min

    Q18, Q19, Q20 & Q21: Permissions Granted to Licensees

    The nine organizations that license their intellectual property to other organizations were then asked a series of questions about...
    Q15, Q16 & Q17: Licensing IP to Others
    Michelle Walker
    • Jan 17
    • 3 min

    Q15, Q16 & Q17: Licensing IP to Others

    One of the ways intellectual property assets create value is in the ability to license the right to use the intellectual property to...
    Q9 & Q10: Foundation Funding and IP Rights Retention
    Michelle Walker
    • Nov 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    Q9 & Q10: Foundation Funding and IP Rights Retention

    Image by: Andrea De Santis The next set of questions in the 2014 survey circled back to the ownership of the nonprofit’s intellectual...
    Q8: Enforcing IP Rights Through Legal Action
    Michelle Walker
    • Sep 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    Q8: Enforcing IP Rights Through Legal Action

    As I’ve written about previously, one facet to IP rights is the right to exclude others from using intellectual property that your...
    Q6 & Q7: Day-to-Day IP Management
    Michelle Walker
    • Sep 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Q6 & Q7: Day-to-Day IP Management

    The next two questions in the original survey focused on the day-to-day management responsibilities for intellectual property assets. An...
    Q5: Who Suggested Written Policies
    Michelle Walker
    • Aug 31, 2021
    • 3 min

    Q5: Who Suggested Written Policies

    The next question asked the respondents to share who suggested the need for written policies. This question was a follow-up to the 10...
    Q3 & Q4: Written IP Policies and What They Cover
    Michelle Walker
    • Aug 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    Q3 & Q4: Written IP Policies and What They Cover

    I then asked respondents whether the organization has any written policies regarding the intellectual property assets. Written policies...
    Figuring Out the Who and the What to Ask
    Michelle Walker
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Figuring Out the Who and the What to Ask

    Okay, my next decisions weren't nearly life and death. But, the quality of my research choices at this point would be the difference...
    It’s Time to Get Rid of the Concept of Overhead in Nonprofit Organizations
    Michelle Walker
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 3 min

    It’s Time to Get Rid of the Concept of Overhead in Nonprofit Organizations

    The management framework that the nonprofit sector predominately uses, New Public Management, is a bad fit. What’s needed is a framework...
    Which Way Now?
    Michelle Walker
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Which Way Now?

    After all of that reading I knew more about intellectual property law and economics, theories of justice and knowledge, and the landscape...
    Book Club of One: Book Report 4
    Michelle Walker
    • Aug 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    Book Club of One: Book Report 4

    As capstones to my reading, these two texts helped to frame some key concepts that would move my nonprofit intellectual property...
    Book Club of One: Book Report 3
    Michelle Walker
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    Book Club of One: Book Report 3

    I really had no idea what reading about open innovation might be about, other than I thought it was loosely connected to the ideas of...
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