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Corporate Innovation and IP Strategy Lessons from MIT

ClarkeModet and MIT ILP have the pleasure to announce our IP strategy event, in which we’ll have a special guest, professor Joe Hadzima who has been deeply involved with MIT spinoffs for over 30 years.

MIT is recognized as having a robust Innovation/Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.  The Kauffman Foundation Report on MIT. Entrepreneurship notes that companies founded by MIT graduates if combined into a single “country” would represent the 10th largest economy in the world.

Intellectual Property and IP Strategy have been key components in the launching and growth of these MIT companies.

Topics:

• How IP data and analytics have been used, to decide what innovations to commercialize
• The examples and concepts for large companies seeking to innovate, in particular in “technology scouting”, idea generation, corporate venture capital, and corporate partnering.

Speakers:

Joseph G Hadzima Senior Lecturer, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Joe Hadzima is a Senior Lecturer in the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. He works in the areas of entrepreneurship, startup phase companies, business plans, venture capital, corporate governance, and intellectual property strategy. He has been involved in founding more than 100 companies as a founder, investor, director, legal counsel, or employee, and has advised entrepreneurs, high-growth businesses, and venture capitalists.

Clara Pombo, Group Chief Institutional Relations Officer

With more than 18 years of experience in Intellectual Property, International experience, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Her knowledge involves portfolio strategy, internationalization, and litigation management in Latin America and Spain, also conflict resolution, negotiations, and business opportunities

Clara Pombo