Harvesting External Innovation

Harvesting External Innovation addresses the growing phenomenon of companies cooperating and collaborating with a variety of external parties. Intellectual property, especially patents, plays a fundamental role promoting and protecting innovation, regardless of whether that innovation comes from internal employees or persons external to the company. Donal O'Connell discusses in depth how best to handle intellectual property matters, how to actually work with external inventors and how to handle their inventions. It includes a suggested process and check list.