Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
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Founders perspective on innovation and IPR
November 2016 Johannes Hoefler
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Founders perspective on innovation and IPR November 2016 Johannes Hoefler Patent & Founder Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced in high quality! Factory GmbH Overview 1. Introduction HELIOVIS AG o VOCIER GmbH o
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
November 2016 Johannes Hoefler
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
1. Introduction
2. Systematic innovation => Patent & Founder Factory
3. Problems & challenges
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
1. Introduction
2. Systematic innovation => Patent & Founder Factory
3. Problems & challenges
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
incremental innovation disruptive innovation disruptive innovation disruptive innovation
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard, 2000) 1. Generally almost impossible to self-disrupt a well managed company. The organisational immune system will reject it 2. Companies can turn this threats into chances by investing (buying into)
CEO- Level (=> labour dividing innovation)
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patentable? USP… Team- composition, motivation, hard- & soft skills Business Angels, public funding, VCs, crowd- funding External experience Desirable output
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
1. Introduction
2. Systematic innovation => Patent & Founder Factory
3. Problems & challenges
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Weekend- Workshops: “business ideas till lunch” University-SpinOff “solutions looking for problems”
Unexperienced / no serial entrepreneurs => inefficient resource utilization Financing after suffering extended preseed-
Hardly StartUp- experience, consulter with corporate- background, no experience “import” => Low number of StartUps & bad chances
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Private funding
Traditional paradigm !
Public funding Start Up
Basic research Applied research Experimental development Demonstration Market development/ RollOut
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Actual Examples
Werner von Siemens (Siemens) / Henry Ford (Ford) / Thomas Alva Edison (General Electric)
Steve Jobs & “Woz” (Apple) / Elon Musk (TESLA Motors) Jef Bezos (Amazon)
Historic Examples
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
practical problem
new paradigm:
US company Fraunhofer Japan university patentable invention
Start Up
StartUp solution
Private funding Public funding Start Up
Basic research Applied research Experimental development Demonstration Market development/ RollOut
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
1. Introduction
2. Systematic innovation => Patent & Founder Factory
3. Problems & challenges
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Serial or Parallel Entrepreneur ?
Some milestones
1,6 Mrd. $ by YAHOO
(TESLA Konkurrent)
VC for new solar power plant
by Target Corp.
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
1. Problem really understood ? 2. Well known possibilities mosaic-like recombined to new solutions 3. Goal conflicts 4. Plausibilisation and testing Tried and tested processes ! Since more than 20 years in the silicon valley
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
M7: customer- LOIs M8: Crowdfunding campagne M13: GmbH incorporation M14: sales- start M16: Alumni => mentoring
M1: Partner- UNIs, FHs & HTLs KickOff- Workshop August Assessment in May Februar Workshop week Easter workshop week FollowUp WE- workshops - 1 WE/ month SpinOut- & transfer workshop M2: technology- & market- environment M4: Real & virtual prototyping M5: Marketing- & BusinessPlan 1.0 M10: Public funding application M11: Smart money M12: Patent & IP- strategy
May Jun Jul Aug Sept Okt Nov Dez Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Okt
Seed- Phase (after the course)
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Lerning- & synergy- effects thanks to „CFO as a Service“ (Business Angel, Crowdfunding, Venture Captial...)
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Mentoring & Revers Mentoring at
(e.g. in august)
spare time activity Valuable inputs, feedback & contacts ( in both directions ! )
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Foundation & Growth Academy => Founder production
IDEAtank => Idea production Mentoring & Community => KnowHow Transfer CFO - as a Service => Safe funding Ideas (2-12 month) PreSeed ( 1 year ) Seed Offer to politics and industry Private offer to StartUps
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
ü Patentable? USP… ü Team- composition, motivation, hard- & soft skills ü Business Angels, public funding, VCs, crowd-funding ü External experience ü Desirable output
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
1. Introduction
2. Systematic innovation => Patent & Founder Factory
3. Problems & challenges
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Foundation & Growth ① Academy => Founder production
② IDEAtank => Ideas production Mentoring & Community => Industry- KnowHow Transfer CFO - as a Service => Save funding Idea- production ( 3 variants / 2-12 month ) PreSeed( 1 year ) Seed => Project proposal for new technologies, products, services, markets, businesses ④ “Disruption aaS” looking for potential to disrupt the establishment (aktiv) ③ “StartUp aaS” – picking up ideas inside the company(passiv) Open Innovation
Offer to politics ( public funding ) Private offer to StartUps
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
New technologies New products New services New marktes Neue businesses 1.day 2.day 3.day 4.day 5.day 2.-4. weeks
How does it work ? ( system understanding ) Why are you doing it like that (and not differently) ? (Completing compehension & Developing a Feeling) What do you think about … ? ( proposals & hypotheses ) Web 2.0 IT-Sec. Cloud BigData Auton.Vehicle Alt.Drive 3D-Druck Genomik 2.0 Mobile AI Robotic s IoT Mechatronic Adv.Material s CleanTech E-Storage
Digitalisation driven Science & Engineering driven
UserCentric D Service D Info. D
Design driven Megatrends => future markets
health individualisation globalisation NeoEcology urbanisation connectivity SilverSociety FemaleShif t knowledge society mobility
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Core business => internal Ecosystem (outside core focus) => external possible risik for external investors
Exclusiveness/ Commissions internal project StartUp- stake
Industry picking up PFF- ideas against paying commission ( like patent licences or sales provision ) 2,5% commission + 10% of internal savings 26% shares of a StartUp for: 3 x € 25.000 academy- contribution + € 100.000 nominal capital
Individual agreement concerning financial contribution to the academy and nominal capital
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
1. Introduction
2. Systematic innovation => Patent & Founder Factory
3. Problems & challenges
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Quick wins / incremental innovations => License to industry Profound / radical innovations => Not invented here => Implement via Startup
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Pressed stage => Patent application (4.000 EUR) Seed stage => Internationalisation (50.000 EUR – 500.000 EUR)
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Enough liquidity to defend against huge corporations? Claims strong enough to find lawyers / funds willing to share chances and risks?
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Direct route (red) will infringe 3-4 patents Design around those patents (impossible with compound patents)
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Difficult at early stage
around Any agreed upon procedures?
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Patent & Founder Factory GmbH
Founder, Patents & StartUps systematically produced– in high quality!
Johannes Höfler +43 676 898 474 400 johannes.hoefler@pf-factory.at