Best Practices on IP valorization: Handbook on Italian and Spanish best practices of Intellectual Property exploitation

The handbook presents five chapters: - In the first chapter the Politecnico di Milano and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya will present the general overview of their IP policy; - The second chapter deals with the importance of establishing well-defined IP strategies to economically valorize an invention, with a specific focus on licensing policy and start-up creation process. - The third chapter tackles a very tricky issue: how to evaluate the patentability and the registration requirements and how to calculate the value of an intangible asset. - The fourth chapter points out the importance to define IP Regulations to optimize the Academic – industrial relations in the context of intellectual property commercialization and Open Innovation projects. - The last chapter presents how the two universities evaluate, support, and monitor the invention of their researchers, promoting entrepreneurship within their structures.