title: Open innovation or open house: how to protect your most valuable assets.
abstract: Many businesses have difficulty in effectively managing their intellectual property. This article offers advice, particularly for smaller companies, on how to protect their ideas and thereby be able to benefit from an open system of product innovation.
authors.affiliation: knowledge Futures Ltd, City Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. jane.hogan@knowledge-futures.com
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hogan
mesh_terms: D016520:Entrepreneurship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018973:Intellectual Property; D007857:Leadership; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010067:Ownership / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom