Off line Brief 15th June 2018

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Text Brief 2 – 2018. The patent dilemma in entrepreneurship The manager of a consultancy firm specialized in the management of IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights) once said to me: “The problem for high-tech start-ups is that patenting is costly: start-ups need money for patents. And for obtaining money, they often need to approach several potential external investors, revealing them the nature of their business idea and the characteristics of the underlying technology, thus exposing themselves to the risk of expropriation. Thus, they fear that following that road they would not have anything to patent at the end of the day”. Frame this problem using the concepts of the BIE course, and suggest possible systemic (i.e. public) and/or private remedies to break this vicious cycle or to alleviate its negative effects. Write an homogenous essay (“slide style” should be avoided). Template File format Only Word documents are accepted. File name: Save the file as Surname_Name_IdentificationNo (for example, Grilli_Luca_12345678). For identification number please preferably use “Matricola” or as second best “Codice persona”. The documents should not be longer than 600 words (use “Count words” function to check it). - Longer documents will be rejected. - Two tables or figures can be added if necessary (if not your own production, please cite the source). These tables/figures do not contribute to the word-count. Timing, validity and restrictions Before 23:50 of June 27 th 2018: Upload the brief on the Beep site in the Section Homework into the folder “Off-line brief call 2018 June 25th”. Grades will be published with the June 25th 2018 exam results. A positive brief grade will be kept valid for the whole Academic Year (up to the end of February 2019). However if the student uploads…