Quite a last week, with IPBC coming up

I was giving the third of the EVCA’s IP masterclass webinars last Monday and was able to cite Joff Wild’s reference to Fluxxion in the IAM blog just in time. http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=98c6a99a-4719-4a3f-84b0-9932428ef94e

Fluxxion, http://www.fluxxion.com/,  is one of those apparently rare European early stage entities where IP strategy and implementation is driven from the top. I don’t think though this is as rare as it first appears. We’re 150+ projects old now and finding that many more CEO’s and investors than even a year ago are insisting that their businesses use a company like ours to help them to consider and frame the most appropriate IP plan.

I should keep track of our project numbers and see if we can track further progress against our accumulated number of engagements. We’d hope to be 50 further on by this time next year and I’m just hoping that the trend of the last 6 months continues. We’ve never been busier, never had more complex and challenging projects and never had a bigger and better work pipeline. It’s been a long time coming I promise you.

I’m off to Germany this week to take in a project followed by IPBC in Munich where the IP community collects. http://www.ipbusinesscongress.com/2010/. I’m meeting up with an old friend Giancarlo Migliori (aka Mr GoodIdea and Mr Bad Name) for breakfast on Tuesday. We first met on a visit to see Jim Malackowski and the Ocean Tomo team in 2007. It feels like several lifetimes ago.

I’m going to IPBC to speak but also to make some new contacts. We’re thinking long and hard about how to grow our business geographically and specifically for me I’d love to meet up with anyone thinking about IP strategy in emerging economies like the BRICs countries.