Michelle Walker
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...