Business secrets, long a neglected domain in IP Management studies, have recently been recognized as a significant lode of value creation for companies, and are on their way to qualify as bona fide IP assets, even though their identification and value assessment (leading to contribution to corporate equity buildup) pose new challenges to professionals.
For several years Winnotek’s partners had focussed their interest on this particular topic, notably while moderating ad hoc workgroups within Licensing Executive Society International (« LESI »). In this framework they enlisted ten internationally recognized experts to join them in combining their knowledge into a comprehensive work of methods, tools and best practices to identify business secrets, protect them, assess their value and turn them into tangible contribution to companies’ development.
The book title is « Business Secrets Management : strategies to protect, extract and maximize value » (Springer, publisher). It was released in April 2025 simultaneously with LESI’s annual worldwide convention in Singapore.
All three Winnotek’s partners contributed as authors, Pierre Ollivier and André Gorius played key parts in coordinating the drafting process over two years, and Pierre Ollivier is the book leading co-editor of four. This work is truly an international accomplishment, with authors from USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Slovakia, the Philippines, Singapore and France.
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