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Wednesday webinars

For the first time during Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Business & IP Centre will be holding two webinars each day to give you the essential information you need to protect your business and improve profitability. 

Introduction to Open Innovation for Business

11.00am - 12.00pm

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Open innovation is based on a simple principle. This is that by accessing a broad range of ideas and views than those which exist or are generated within a single organisation a business will dramatically increase the possibility of developing innovative new products and services. This webinar will outline the potential benefits of open innovation models to businesses regardless of size and illustrate these through a variety of examples of good practice.    

Nigel Spencer

Nigel is currently responsible for services to support innovation and entrepreneurship at the British Library Business & IP Centre. 

Since joining the Library in 1983, Nigel has been responsible for managing a diverse range of services. These have included the BL Lloyds Bank Business Line; the BL seminar programme; reprographic and photographic services; the Patent Express document delivery service; the BL Images online picture library; reference services across all Reading Rooms, and; the provision of access to premium subscription online databases in the Reading Rooms. 

He is leading the Library's contribution to the Open Innovation project and EU-funded project which aims to promote the use of open innovation techniques across North West Europe and provides support to open innovation projects funded by JISC as part of their Business Community Engagement Programme.   

Beginner's guide to intellectual property

15.00 - 16.00pm

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An understanding of intellectual property and its protection is vital for anyone with an idea, whether it’s an invention, a brand name or a song.

This session will introduce the four areas of intellectual property and help you understand which may apply to you and your business:

• Patents
• Trade marks
• Registered designs
• Copyright

Maria Lampert

Maria Lampert is a Business & IP Centre information specialist and chairs the UK Patent Library Network.  Maria regularly presents the Centre’s series of business information workshops. She is an accredited business adviser at the Centre. She has worked with a diverse range of business ideas from all sectors, especially helping those who are at a start-up level.

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