Special lecture on Innovation and Intellectual Capital

Mr. Patrice Vidon, European Patent and Trademark Attorney, Vidon & Partners (EUROPE/ASIA) will deliver a special lecture titled "Innovation and Intellectual Capital: new Challenges in a changing world: Concepts and Tools for Creating and Measuring IC Value in Corporations and Organizations."

Date: 1 November 2011
Time: 1330 hours
Venue: Amphitheatre, School of Management (SOM) Building

Outline:
Financial analysts, investors, lawmakers, managers face crossroads when it comes to analyse innovation and IC, and take same into account in their thinking patterns and decision models : prudent conservatives remain defiant and reluctant towards non tangibles and stick to old methods which leave them aside of most of the new economy; others rely overconfidently to fragile and uncertain intuitions, up to the risk of becoming dependent of dangerously virtual and volatile concepts and assets.

The solution lies in more conceptualization, more formalization, and more solid innovation in the concepts and instruments used to create and manage IC and Innovation.

The objective of the lecture is to present some of the state-of-the-art concepts and instruments currently developed, tested and sometimes already used and shared by various actors to create IC and measure the value of same so as to make better decisions and to more efficiently steer innovating corporations and organisations through our shaken economies.

About the speaker:

Mr. Patrice VIDON, 51, French, MSc ICAM Lille (France), BA&PolSc IEP Paris (France), Dipl. in Intellectual Property of CEIPI (Strasbourg, France) and EPO (Munich, Germany), is a European and French Intellectual Property Attorney. He is a Founding and Managing Partner of VIDON IP Law Group (Europe - Asia), a network of IP consulting firms, with over 100 associates and offices in Paris, Shanghai, Bangkok and 5 other locations in Europe and Asia.

Mr. Patrice VIDON is the President of NOVINCIE (Regional Association dedicated to KM in Region Bretagne, France), former President of CNCPI (French Institute of IP Attorneys) and past President of CNIPA (European Committee of National IP Attorneys Institutes)