With the right intellectual property (IP) strategy, your smart new ideas and innovations in the agritech space can become powerful tools for growth, profitability, and industry leadership. Chris Bird, Principal, FPA Patent Attorneys shares the key steps to spotting your next big agritech breakthrough and starting the journey of turning it into an asset for your business.
Eighty-eight per cent of agrifood tech and innovation startups inhouse their grant writing. That may work when you’re first starting out, but you’ll likely quickly outgrow the late nights pulling an application together only to find you weren’t competitive. Done poorly, they’re a huge time drain. Camilla Roberts, CEO, SCALE IMPACT, shares how to tackle grant applications efficiently with greater chances of securing money fast.
So, you’ve identified that you have a smart new idea in the agritech space, and you want legal protection to stop others ‘trespassing on your territory’. Chris Bird, Principal, FPA Patent Attorneys breaks down the patent application process and how to protect your agritech innovation through a patent.
When it comes to exporting, success or failure often comes down to two things. First, whether you can create an ‘unfair advantage’ or ‘competitive edge’ for your product or service that will transfer across markets; and secondly, how well you’ve done your due diligence (or pre-departure checks) on the markets you are moving into before you hit go on your strategy.
As the saying goes “if you build it, they will come”. However, in the agritech sector, where value is often driven through innovative intangible assets, deployment is not necessarily the strategy that will create the highest return on investment.
Two leading Australian entrepreneurs looking to provide solutions to climate change and weather risk shared valuable insights about their startup journey in the first session of evokeAG.'s Grassroots Series, produced in partnership with Cicada GrowLab.
EverEdge Managing Director, Michael Masterson, gives us the lowdown on what intangible assets really are and how to find and value your company’s ‘secret sauce’ with SWAN Systems CEO, Tim Hyde.
Too often founders are fixated with “making a difference” whether it be social or environmental and miss the mark on delivering the financial returns that every investor expects. So how do you find the right balance and meet your customer’s needs?
GoMicro are a microscopy 4.0 company who are re-inventing the microscope and instilling it with artificial intelligence, for the intention of allowing it to be accessible to the public and not just scientists.
