Growth is ever more centred on intellectual property. In this book, 24 top-level IP performers, including the high-growth team at the EPO's patent academy, discuss how IP is creating new landscapes for growth in AI, biotech and smart factories, highlighting how it is those who integrate IP into their strategy, culture and mindset who grow at pace.

Prospects for high-growth tech ventures * IP for serial tech entrepreneurs * Creating impact with IP * Becoming a centre of excellence * Intellectual assets for early-stage ventures * First to market * Becoming future ready * Smart factories and IP * Rethink your IP for digital * AI patents * Innovating with medical AI * What entrepreneurs can expect from patent examiners * SME cycle for releasing the value in IP * Trade secrets v patents * Determining the value of IP assets * Broad claim, weak case? * Fast track for European patents * Where next for IP with AI

'Another winner! Read to explore the potential for proprietary IP, AI, smart factories and digitech to ignite high growth and value. Be future ready, creating next gen innovative business models,' Audrey Yap, co-chair, High-growth Technology Business Initiative * 'This book brings you up to speed with the realities of managing IP in emerging technologies like AI,' Kevin R Smith, chief executive, Boom & Partners, start-up advisors * 'A great chance to upgrade your IP and put yourself on track to become one of the winners from digital transformation,' Marcos Kauffman, director, Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering * 'A broad range of useful and actionable insights that entrepreneurial innovators can apply to their own ventures,' Adrian Burden, tech founder and a Maserati / Sunday Times top 100 entrepreneur