The Initial event for mentoring programme of the KnowING IPR project took place on 3rd of November 2021.

The parthership is looking forward to cooperate with participants and help them on their journey to patent report development.

The Mentoring programme in IPR, patenting and technology offer enables SMEs and startups to develop their IPR skills, to enhance their IPR based cooperation, to have access to IPR open data and to use IPR knowledge to advance their work and solve specific challenges:

• have a snapshot of the patent situation of a specific technology/product at national/international level
• analyze the validity of certain patents
• develop a commercialization plan
• support the patenting process
• support the trademarking process

During the programme, the selected participants will be accompanied to increase their knowledge on IPR, patenting and commercialization and to explore the evaluation of potentially valuable patentable ideas.