15.IPS – Intellectual Property Strategy a.k.a. Valuing Intangibles
Summary
Proposal –
15.IPS is a proposed weekly spring semester seminar for MIT technology and
business students introducing them to intellectual property strategy
specifically, and intangible asset strategy generally. Although business value is increasingly
driven by intellectual, reputational, cultural, and experiential goods and
services, such intangible assets are often extraordinarily difficult to price
and plan for. This seminar surveys the
history and emergence of new sources of value, examines classical and emerging
forms of intellectual property, and offers a penetrating and embracive view of
our ever more intangible, intellectual, and experiential economy.
Expected Student Deliverables
– We ask students to finish the seminar with either (a) an intellectual asset
analysis of an emerging technology business field of personal interest, or (b)
focused work towards a thesis topic analyzing a specific company’s intangible
asset portfolio and IP strategy, or (c) a critical assessment of trends and
practices in intellectual property regimes worldwide.
Proposed
Modules –
Potential Modules to be woven throughout the 15.IPS Syllabus over the semester
include:
Live Technology Licensing
Cases Highlighting MIT Technology Themes – We try to weave
live cases from MIT in several strategic emerging innovation sectors throughout
the course:
(1) Information
Technologies – Computing, telecom, & content, from
highly replicable to very-complex;
(2) Biomedical
Technologies – Biotech & applied life sciences, from
biomolecules to neurotech;
(3) Tiny
Technologies – Materials, devices, & fabrication,
from very-nano to ultra-macro in scale.
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Engineering School-Wide Elective Subject.
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