PATINNOVA - Strategies for the protection of innovation in new technologies
The European Commission, DG XIII, has recently published the proceedings of the PATINNOVA '92 and PATINNOVA '94 conferences on innovation, management and patents, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal (18-20 May 1992) and Copenhagen, Denmark (2-4 June 1994) respectively. Organized by the European Commission within the framework of the INNOVATION programme, the conferences were aimed at improving general awareness of the economic and marketing importance of the patent system, and exploring the relationship between research and the actual transfer of research results to new products.