FOUNDERS
The Intellectual Property Finance Institute has been founded by the Politecnico di Torino and ICM Advisors.
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| Politecnico di Torino is ranked in the top 100 world universities in Engineering. Worldwide recognized as a high-quality centre for training and research, it has been able to reconcile tradition and innovation, by being deeply locally rooted to act as a service for the region and at the same time by establishing itself as a University where students and talents from all over the world come to work and study.
www.polito.it
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| The Innovation Studies is a research group working in the area of The Economics of Science and Innovation at the Politecnico di Torino, under the supervision of Professor Mario Calderini.
The Innovation Studies areas of current investigation range from Policy of Research and Innovation, to Economics of Patent and Intellectual Property Rights, Corporate Governance, Financing of Innovation, Technology Transfer from Science to Industry and the Management of Innovation within firms.
The group is composed by several junior and senior researchers, plus PhD students and visiting fellows.
www.innovationstudies.polito.it
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| ICM Advisors is an international independent business advisory and research firm specialized in Valuation, Management and Financing of the Intangible Assets and the Intellectual Property.
ICM mission is to generate:
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competitive advantage through effective Performance Management of Marketing (brands, customer relationships, ect.) and Technology intangible assets (patent, know-how, ect.);
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additional revenues through marketing and licensing of new or unexploited Intellectual Property (patents, know-how, copyrights, franchises, trademarks, industrial design);
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monetization opportunities through IP-backed financing solutions (IP-loans, lease-back, securitization, IP-Holding, equity positions and options).
The firm combines the expertise in intangible asset valuation, business strategy, marketing and technology into an integrated approach to support the management in exploiting the hidden value of their business.
The principals in the business all have blue chip backgrounds and reputation having come from leading edge corporations, first tier strategy consulting, the Big Four and communications firms. Senior Advisors have significant background and experiences in the specific intangible assets, able to understand the business complexities and to manage the engagements by teaming with the clients.
A dedicated unit of Intangible Equity Research and Competitive Intelligence (ICM Research) conducts the institutional and the commissioned research and maintains an extensive knowledge base of practices, experiences and public/private information sources.
With the support of significant R&D investments, the firm know-how has been structured in a proprietary Intangible Asset Performance Management System including methods, processes and tools such as: Brand Equity Score©, Technology Equity Score©, Design Equity Score© and Brand Intelligence System©.
www.icmadvisors.com
www.icm-research.com
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