As I’ve written about previously, one facet to IP rights is the right to exclude others from using intellectual property that your...

The next two questions in the original survey focused on the day-to-day management responsibilities for intellectual property assets. An...

The next question asked the respondents to share who suggested the need for written policies. This question was a follow-up to the 10...

I then asked respondents whether the organization has any written policies regarding the intellectual property assets. Written policies...

Okay, my next decisions weren't nearly life and death. But, the quality of my research choices at this point would be the difference...

The management framework that the nonprofit sector predominately uses, New Public Management, is a bad fit. What’s needed is a framework...

After all of that reading I knew more about intellectual property law and economics, theories of justice and knowledge, and the landscape...

As capstones to my reading, these two texts helped to frame some key concepts that would move my nonprofit intellectual property...

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...

A philosopher, a legal scholar, an economist, and a computer scientist walk into a bar… I don’t tell jokes because I can never remember...

In industry an entrepreneur is someone who innovates. In the nonprofit sector it’s no accident that certain nonprofit founders and some...

How could I have worked for three organizations that made strategic use of their IP and no one researching the sector even mentions it?...

At least that’s what my parents tell me. It’d be a surprise to no one that knows me that I can keep on something until I’ve satisfied my...

A nonprofit's intellectual property assets require governance oversight and thoughtful management as part of the board’s fiduciary duty.

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