02/2005 - It's a long way from being the world export champion to becoming the world champion in the creation of value. In BMWi introduces opportunities to enhance corporate values using patents and advises the German government to subsidize private investments in innovation.

03/2006 - Each year aprox. 60.000 patents are filed at the German patent-office. In many cases small and medium enterprises don't even exploit a fraction of their true potential. So called Patent-Funds might help. Dirk Loop gives a brief overview in the opportunities and challenges of Patent-Funds for Private Wealth.

07/2005 - A patent consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention. At BITKOM Dirk Loop gives a small introduction in the financial valuation of patents and their potential to add corporate value besides the disclosure of competitors.

07/2009 - How to produce innovation when money is short? By enhancing the productivity throughout the innovation process. In his article in innovisions Dirk Loop explains why openness and collaboration are the keys to innovation in times of thriftiness and especially for SME.

07/2005 - Even for industry sectors without high investments in reseach and development the creation of growth is only possible through innovation. Especially young innovative compannies often suffer from a lack of assets when it comes to credit financing. Most of their assets are intagible, i.e. patents. So the question is: Can patents be used as collaterals? In this artical for ifo-Schnelldienst Dirk Loop explained and discussed several methods for patent valuation related to debt financing.

06/2006 - Dirk Loop on possibilities and challenges using intellectual property esp. patents as coleterals for dept finance in WIPO SME-Newsletter.

05/2007 - Dirk Loop on a crappy statistic which related the number of patents a company gets granted and its ability to provide innovative products or services in brandeins.

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