Managing Technology Convergence and Protecting Innovation: Intellectual Property for Cleantech Ventures – Biomass and Beyond
September 2009By: Michael J. Pomianek and Joseph Teja, Jr.
Biomass Magazine
While intellectual property is always an important component to the success of any technology-based company, it is arguably especially important for "cleantech" ventures directed to energy and/or environmentally-related technologies. Cleantech is a broad field with several narrow subsectors - the technologies embraced run the gamut from older technologies already in the public domain and now being recycled, to cutting-edge research coming out of academic and industry labs. Some of the innovations involve fundamental technology breakthroughs that may warrant broad protection. In other cases, however, an incremental and seemingly narrow improvement in an already crowded area of development may provide an important enabling solution having significant commercial value.
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