Discover how to capitalise on knowledge of your company and obtain economic and intellectual profit

This specialisation provides the knowledge of the most important aspects of patents and how to use all of the tools that make intangible assets emerge.

You will know how to protect your technology through IP, how to find critical information that might affect your decisions and how to transfer your R&D results to the market.

The Competitive Intelligence and Effective Exploitation of Patents Specialisation is structured into three independent courses that cover exploitation of patents and include business thinking.

Goals & Objectives


This course offers specific training for SMEs, universities, research centres and individuals on Competitive Intelligence. It focuses on the required skills for carrying out Competitive Intelligence and Technology Scouting tasks such as information searches in specialised sources and analysis through analytical data and text mining tools and techniques. It offers practical examples and application use cases in several industries and explains how to implement it in practice in the organization.


Outcomes


On completing this course, you will be able to:

  • By the end of this course you will be able find and analyse critical information to your business and timely detect opportunities and threats that may affect your activity and generally improve your organization’s decision making processes.
  • Getting to know what is Competitive Intelligence and Technology Scouting, how they fit in the business innovation approach, their importance for any organization and the related strategic management disciplines.
  • Learn how to identify different types of Information Sources and how to formulate search strategies to locate and access information.
  • Learn the basics of the analysis of information for Competitive Intelligence through data and text mining tools and techniques.
  • Learn through practical examples and application uses cases how CI has been implemented in the industry.
  • Learn how to set Up the CI Function within your Organization, the requiered steps to implement it and the resources needed.

About the 3 courses

Patents, patentability, and patent infringement

Start date: 13 November 2017

Learn how you can use the patent system to effectively protect your innovations around the world. What is an invention? And, which inventions can be protected by a patent? These are the questions that will be answered in this course. But we will also focus on how you can avoid infringing somebody else's patents and your options if you discover that you are infringing a patent. The ultimate goal is that you learn how effective patent management and strategy can make or save you money.

Competitive intelligence and technology scouting

Start date: 8 January 2018

Today companies and organisations of all kinds are aware that solving R&D problems is not enough. What is really important now is turning this knowledge into new products, new processes or new services providing compelling market value propositions. Firms have also realised that they have to keep track of the constant changes in the environment, as opportunities arise from the information and knowledge flows resulting from our interaction with that environment. In line with the concept of open innovation, and the systematic monitoring of the scientific, technical and market environment are Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence activities, the object of this course.

IP commercialisation

Start date: 2 October 2017

How to capitalise on knowledge of your company and obtain economic and intellectual profit? This is the question that this online course tries to answer. Learn how to use all of the tools that make intangible assets emerge.

Participating institutions

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

IALE Tecnología

ZBM Patents & Trademarks