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IP, Nonprofits, Organizational Strategy

February 23, 2022

More Curiosity: What New Questions the Survey Prompted

After the analysis of the survey responses was complete, I found myself in a similar state of curiosity that I’d been in before the survey. There were more questions about intellectual property, management, and strategy that hadn’t been answered. Some of these questions for the basis of my ongoing study and work as a consultant. […]

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Governance, IP, Organizational Strategy

February 11, 2022

Q30, Q31, Q32, & Q33: Fundraising and Nonprofit Intellectual Property

Today’s survey data is all about whether nonprofits leverage their intellectual property assets to secure investments, like grants or donations. I don’t know of a single nonprofit that couldn’t use more. More money, that is. Money, as one type of asset accomplishes one critical thing: buying resources (talent, supplies, awareness) that enables achieving organizational objectives. […]

"Don't waste your talent" written on sidewalk

IP, Nonprofits, Organizational Strategy

February 7, 2022

Q28 & Q29: Nonprofit Staff and Board Recruitment

My pre-survey reading also highlighted the less obvious marketplace opportunity of recruiting and retaining people talent (Bingham and Spradlin, 2011). Showcasing intellectual capital assets to prospective board members and employees is a way to demonstrate expertise and strong operational skills. For recruiting board members, it’s a way to differentiate a nonprofit from others in the […]

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IP, Nonprofits, Organizational Strategy

February 3, 2022

Q26 & 27: Nonprofit Scaling and Growth

My pre-survey reading opened my mind to the number of ways that intellectual property assets are used to expand market opportunities. Intellectual property is one asset that can be leveraged to grow or scale a nonprofit organization. It is something I have seen done by previous employers and clients. I wondered how prevalent it would […]

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IP, Nonprofits, Organizational Strategy

January 28, 2022

Q22 & Q23: Nonprofit Earned Revenue

I was also curious to know if nonprofit organizations were using their intellectual property assets to generate revenues through their own work as fee-for-service or other fees. At the time it seemed silly because fee-for-services represents about 80 cents of every dollar received by nonprofits. But, as that same article points out, that statistic is […]

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Governance, IP, Nonprofits, Organizational Strategy

January 23, 2022

Q18, Q19, Q20 & Q21: Permissions Granted to Licensees

The nine organizations that license their intellectual property to other organizations were then asked a series of questions about permission to modify and resell licensed IP. I asked this to get a better understanding of where respondents fit on the spectrum of protection for their IP asset. For example, did they prefer weak or strong […]

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IP, Nonprofits, Organizational Strategy

January 17, 2022

Q15, Q16 & Q17: Licensing IP to Others

One of the ways intellectual property assets create value is in the ability to license the right to use the intellectual property to others. This can be for a fee or not. Either way, the owner’s stock of reputational or expertise capital grows simply by having a valuable asset that creates value and utility for […]

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IP, Nonprofits

September 10, 2021

Q8: Enforcing IP Rights Through Legal Action

As I’ve written about previously, one facet to IP rights is the right to exclude others from using intellectual property that your organization owns. When I wrote this survey I didn’t know how applicable this question might be for the small sample group. I was actually pleasantly surprised that more than half opted to answer […]

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IP, Nonprofits

September 7, 2021

Q6 & Q7: Day-to-Day IP Management

The next two questions in the original survey focused on the day-to-day management responsibilities for intellectual property assets. An earlier question showed that most of the written policies were on management tasks: proper use and display, registration of assets, and the use of non-disclosure agreements. If there are policies for management tasks I wanted to […]

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IP, Nonprofits

August 31, 2021

Q5: Who Suggested Written Policies

The next question asked the respondents to share who suggested the need for written policies. This question was a follow-up to the 10 organizations that said they had written policies for their intellectual property. They indicated that the idea for the policies came from the following roles: I think that internal legal counsel fits within […]

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