• Open Innovation Networks:
  Creating and Managing an Ecosystem for Innovation
  Presentation by Mike Docherty, CEO of Venture2
  
• Using Patent Analytics to Uncover and Assess
  Technology Innovation Opportunities – Before Your Competitors
  Presentation by technology innovation expert, Tom Blailock
  
• Tireless Communication: Experts Share the State-of-the-Art
  in Product Development
  Overview of the Management Roundtable’s April 2008
  PD IMPACT conference
  

Current Research Focus:  Leveraging Intellectual Property

• Encouraging Innovation Through Accurate IP Valuation
  Summary of a presentation by James Markwith, Microsoft Corporation
  
• Intellectual Property Challenges in Co-Development Relationships
  Based on an interview with Gene Slowinski, PhD.
  
• Intellectual Property Protection and Management Issues in
  Open Innovation and Co-Invention Efforts
  A presentation by Dr. Paul B. Germeraad, President,
  Intellectual Assets, Inc.
• IP Considerations in Technology Development
  A presentation by Microsoft's Tanya Moore
  
• The Right I-Stuff: Intellectual Capital Management
  for Open Innovation
  Sharon Oriel of Talisker and Associates, formerly with The Dow Chemical Company, discusses the evolution of capital management at Dow Chemical.
• Considering Partnering or Outsourcing?
  Protect Your Intellectual Property
  James Markwith of Microsoft provides an overview of IP concepts and offers protection strategies.
  
• Managing Intellectual Property for Open Innovation:
  Summary of Audio Session
  Open Innovation experts, Lawrie Cunningham of Black & Decker, Roger James of NAPP Pharmaceuticals and Susan Sprake of Los Alamos National Laboratory, discuss IP challenges.
  
• Co-Development Conference Highlights Intellectual Property,
  Shows Open Innovation is a Maturing Strategy
  Conference participants and presenters from such companies as IBM, Kraft, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Medtronics focus on open innovation models and managing intellectual property around a core business strategy.
  
• Intellectual Property Decision Making
  Brad Goldense of Goldense Group Inc. presents data comparing the current state of product selection and IP decision-making processes.
  
• IP Management Insights from the Clorox Company
  Pat Bengtsson, Clorox's Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, discusses how to avoid IP risks and assess IP value.
  
• IP Management Insights from Hewlett-Packard
  This report examines HP's IP leadership structure, its patent review boards, options for non-core IP, diagnosing IP issues, and tools for asset management.
  

Continuing Research Focus: R&D in China

• Why China? The Opportunity and The Threat
  A summary of a March 2007 presentation by Roger N. Nagel of Lehigh University.
• Negotiating and Initiating a Partnership
  for Co-Innovation in China
  Lothar Katz of Leadership Crossroads provides an overview of the information necessary for negotiating co-innovation partnerships in China.
  
• Merck’s Collaboration with WuXi PharmaTech, Shanghai
  David M. Stout, Ph.D., Director, Global Basic & Pre-clinical Sourcing, Merck Research Laboratories, discusses the elements of Merck's mutually successful partnership with China-based WuXi PharmaTech.