Patents and Innovation in European Universities

As someone who has assisted Universities for over 25 years in protecting their IP , I was interested to listen to today's webinar hosted by the European patent office (EPO), on the above topic. The webinar was centred around research conducted by the EPO and Fraunhofer ISI, looking at how Universities in Europe protect and commercialise their IP. I must commend the EPO for an extremely informative, well run and organised event. 

As well as today's webinar, the EPO has published details of their findings, which can be found here : https://link.epo.org/web/publications/studies/en-the-role-of-european-universities-in-patenting-and-innovation.pdf

The report is very comprehensive and I will not try to summarise it here. Suffice it to say that I intend writing a longer article looking at some of the key findings in the report and where UK universities position themselves as compared to their European counterparts.