Intellectual property culture

This programme helps organizations embed intellectual property in everyday working behaviour rather than addressing it only when a filing or dispute arises.

It focuses on roles, disclosure, confidentiality, ownership, and control points across R&D, manufacturing, and business operations.

Who this is for

• Leaders and functional managers

• R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams

• Legal, people, and intellectual-property teams

Core content

• Recognizing where intellectual assets are created and used in daily work

• Allocating roles among creators, managers, and approvers

• Designing invention disclosure, evidence-retention, and confidentiality processes

• Embedding IP controls in collaboration, procurement, employment, and exit processes

• Map intellectual-asset creation points and risks across the organization

• Define roles and responsibilities for handling those assets

• Propose disclosure and evidence-retention workflows

• Prepare actions for strengthening the organization’s IP culture