CONCEPT:

Attracting Venture Capital and Business Partners While Protecting Your Innovations.

You are invited to join the Innovators Network, on June 6th for a free dinner seminar on how entrepreneurial companies can leverage their intellectual assets to raise capital, develop partnerships, and create new streams of revenue.
By attending “Turning Your Innovations into a Successful Business: Attracting Venture Capital and Business Partners While Protecting Your Innovations” you will:

• Learn proven business strategies for turning innovations into a successful business model
• Learn how intellectual property protection is key to monetizing your innovations
• Hear why a successful IP strategy involves a lot more than just applying for a patent
• Hear from investors on why and how protected IP increases your access to capital
• Receive advice on what to look for in an attorney , and how to manage the cost
• Learn the in and outs of the patent process

All small technology companies—whether you’ve already obtained a patent on your innovation, have a patent pending, or are considering submitting a patent application—will benefit from attending this event.

“Turning Your Innovations into a Successful Business” will feature presentations by experts including:

Andre Carter, Author and President of Irimi Corporation – Irimi is a management consulting firm for start-up information technology companies. Andre is the author of a book on IP strate­gies for small firms in the IT sector published by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine.

Patrick JA Strengers, Investor and entrepreneur in the hi-tech industry – Mr. Strengers became a protagonist and supporter for VC funding in The Netherlands. After he sold the stock of his first enterprise in 1992, he participated in several startups and growing hi-tech companies often as a private investor.

Benoît Strowel, IP Attorney – Benoît's practice focuses in particular on patent law. Motivated by a particular interest in the biotech sector, and having witnessed the growth in this area of his practice, he embarked upon and completed an M.Sc. in general biochemistry and molecular biology at the School of Health and Life Sciences at King's College, London.

Richard Hudson, CEO and Editor of ScienceBusiness – Rich has been a leading science and technology journalist in Europe for 20 years. As managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead a redesign of the title in 2000. Additionally, Mr. Hudson co-authored The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin & reward.