Michelle WalkerMar 102 minWhat 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...
Michelle WalkerMar 42 minFoundations, Grantees, and Intellectual Property RightsI was a fundraiser for 15 years. The implications of my survey’s findings on who funds, owns, and benefits from intellectual property...
Michelle WalkerFeb 234 minMore Curiosity: What New Questions the Survey PromptedAfter the analysis of the survey responses was complete, I found myself in a similar state of curiosity that I'd been in before the...
Michelle WalkerFeb 113 minQ30, Q31, Q32, & Q33: Fundraising and Nonprofit Intellectual PropertyToday’s survey data is all about whether nonprofits leverage their intellectual property assets to secure investments, like grants or...
Michelle WalkerFeb 72 minQ28 & Q29: Nonprofit Staff and Board RecruitmentMy pre-survey reading also highlighted the less obvious marketplace opportunity of recruiting and retaining people talent (Bingham and...
Michelle WalkerFeb 32 minQ26 & 27: Nonprofit Scaling and GrowthMy pre-survey reading opened my mind to the number of ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....
Michelle WalkerFeb 11 minQ24 & Q25: Developing Partnerships with Intellectual PropertyMy pre-survey reading enlightened me to the myriad ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....
Michelle WalkerJan 283 minQ22 & Q23: Nonprofit Earned RevenueI was also curious to know if nonprofit organizations were using their intellectual property assets to generate revenues through their...
Michelle WalkerJan 233 minQ18, Q19, Q20 & Q21: Permissions Granted to LicenseesThe nine organizations that license their intellectual property to other organizations were then asked a series of questions about...
Michelle WalkerJan 173 minQ15, Q16 & Q17: Licensing IP to OthersOne of the ways intellectual property assets create value is in the ability to license the right to use the intellectual property to...
Michelle WalkerNov 4, 20213 minQ9 & Q10: Foundation Funding and IP Rights RetentionImage by: Andrea De Santis The next set of questions in the 2014 survey circled back to the ownership of the nonprofit’s intellectual...
Michelle WalkerSep 10, 20212 minQ8: Enforcing IP Rights Through Legal ActionAs I’ve written about previously, one facet to IP rights is the right to exclude others from using intellectual property that your...
Michelle WalkerSep 7, 20212 minQ6 & Q7: Day-to-Day IP ManagementThe next two questions in the original survey focused on the day-to-day management responsibilities for intellectual property assets. An...
Michelle WalkerAug 31, 20213 minQ5: Who Suggested Written PoliciesThe next question asked the respondents to share who suggested the need for written policies. This question was a follow-up to the 10...
Michelle WalkerAug 27, 20213 minQ3 & Q4: Written IP Policies and What They CoverI then asked respondents whether the organization has any written policies regarding the intellectual property assets. Written policies...
Michelle WalkerAug 19, 20213 minFiguring Out the Who and the What to AskOkay, my next decisions weren't nearly life and death. But, the quality of my research choices at this point would be the difference...
Michelle WalkerAug 17, 20213 minIt’s Time to Get Rid of the Concept of Overhead in Nonprofit OrganizationsThe management framework that the nonprofit sector predominately uses, New Public Management, is a bad fit. What’s needed is a framework...
Michelle WalkerAug 17, 20212 minWhich Way Now?After all of that reading I knew more about intellectual property law and economics, theories of justice and knowledge, and the landscape...
Michelle WalkerAug 13, 20212 minBook Club of One: Book Report 4As capstones to my reading, these two texts helped to frame some key concepts that would move my nonprofit intellectual property...
Michelle WalkerAug 11, 20211 minBook Club of One: Book Report 3I really had no idea what reading about open innovation might be about, other than I thought it was loosely connected to the ideas of...