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...

Today’s survey data is all about whether nonprofits leverage their intellectual property assets to secure investments, like grants or...

My pre-survey reading also highlighted the less obvious marketplace opportunity of recruiting and retaining people talent (Bingham and...

My pre-survey reading opened my mind to the number of ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....

My pre-survey reading enlightened me to the myriad ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities....

I was also curious to know if nonprofit organizations were using their intellectual property assets to generate revenues through their...

The nine organizations that license their intellectual property to other organizations were then asked a series of questions about...

One of the ways intellectual property assets create value is in the ability to license the right to use the intellectual property to...

All of the nonprofits were asked who is authorized to make decisions regarding the use of organization’s Intellectual Property on behalf...

Nonprofits were asked if employee of the organization hold the rights to any of the intellectual property in use by the organization....

Image by: Andrea De Santis The next set of questions in the 2014 survey circled back to the ownership of the nonprofit’s intellectual...

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...

The next question I asked the respondents was whether the organization had officially registered their copyright with the U.S. Copyright...

I sent the survey to 107 people at the organizations curated on the theS&I 100 list, which was a list of vetted social entrepreneurs and...