Pmi Marche little careful to protect their ideas. But the rate … – Il Sole 24 Ore

Pmi Marche little careful to protect their ideas. But the rate … – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on 19 August 2014 at 14:37.

For dynamic record in patents, trademarks and designs are SMEs Marche school: 1,165 European patent applications filed in Brussels in ten years, with an average annual growth rate 8.7% against a national average of 1.3%; other 4,261 applications for patents registered in Italy (+1.1% per year between 2003 and 2012, against a decline in the country of 0.2).

The same trend is observed for applications Community Design (6,357, or 8.6% annually in the period) and Italian (932, up 0.2% compared to a -1.7% average of the Regions). But inventive and intellectual property protection are the preserve of a small group of excellent companies: only 19.6% innovates and protect their ideas.

These are the two faces of the creative dynamism in the land of metalmezzadri on which lights are switched on one hand the Centre Unioncamere patent activity, on the other hand, the Department of Management at the University Politecnica delle Marche which conducted research sample on industrial property in the region.

Over 80% of SMEs Marche – emphasizes the investigation of the university Doric – does not possess thiols industrial property. Who belongs in a patent case out of four to the engineering sector, followed by fashion (16%), electronics (16%), footwear (10%) and wood-furniture (8%). Over half (56%) of the innovations made in Marche registered at Community level is related to trademarks, 29.3% are invention patents, 19.5% for patents and utility models, the 7.3% and Designs .

“From the questionnaires shows that the development of the patent portfolio – says the Vice Rector of the Polytechnic, Gian Luca Gregori who led the research – mainly takes place within the company, with a very limited appeal in the development outsourcing. And that intellectual property is used only in a direct way by the same company that developed it. Excluding an entire market of active and passive trades of licenses that could bring added value to the manufacturing and services in the region. ” Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, are well aware of the role of protection of the patent portfolio in terms of image enhancement. They are also unique critical expressed by entrepreneurs Marches: the bureaucratic procedures for registration are too difficult and specialized; access to credit difficult when it comes to funding the development of innovative ideas (“in the face of often mediocre and business plan that can be improved,” says Gregori); and make use of the networks to exploit the role of aggregator and facilitator of the company’s largest meets still great skepticism among self-made men Marche.

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