News & Events: Events Archive

Join the IA Centre and Interface for this interactive workshop to discover how your business can tap into academic expertise and realise the value of your intangible assets. 

Announcing a unique opportunity to access business services, information and networks in the Falkirk business area. 

The IA Centre will be exhibiting at the Lanarkshire Social Economy Conference at Colville Park Country Club, Motherwell on the 3 April 2008.

This workshop will take deleagtes through a practical framework and process linking rapidly changing technology to the achievement of better results.

Special Offer: 15% discount when you quote 'IA Centre' on registration 

This workshop is designed for knowledge workers and their managers.  In the knowledge-based organisation, we are all knowledge workers and this workshop will prove useful if you are serious sbout transforming the way that you work.

Special Offer : 15% discount when you register quoting 'IA Centre'

This event is aimed specifically at suppliers of IA management services and organisations operating in conjunction with the IA Centre.  It offers an exceptional opportunity to hear from 2 world class experts and to support ongoing CPD. 

This is an excellent opportunity to hear from leading experts in the fields of Trademarks, Patents, Design Registration, Copyright and the wider aspects of IA management - all under one roof ... and all for free!

Are you thinking of starting your own business? Perhaps that process has already begun? Whatever stage you find yourself at, there's one thing you can't afford to miss. Our business start-up shows. In just one day, they'll give you all the food for thought you need to take your plans forward.

Glenrothes:  17 November 2007
Rothes Halls, Glenrothes
 

Are you thinking of starting your own business? Perhaps that process has already begun? Whatever stage you find yourself at, there's one thing you can't afford to miss. Our business start-up shows. In just one day, they'll give you all the food for thought you need to take your plans forward. 

Aberdeen:  10 November 2007
Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen

Are you thinking of starting your own business? Perhaps that process has already begun? Whatever stage you find yourself at, there's one thing you can't afford to miss. The Business Gateway business start-up shows. In just one day, they'll give you all the food for thought you need to take your plans forward. 

Glasgow:  3 November 2007
Hampden Park, Scotland's National Stadium, Glasgow

This is the year the Institute of Fundraising Scotland is offering the highest quality and most professional fundraising conference in Scotland to date.

We have succeeded in offering a high quality line up and reducing delegate fees by at least 15% for each package and up to 25% for some. Institute members also benefit from huge savings on delegate fees with reductions of up to 36%!

Suppliers' Masterclass with Rob McLean.

Attendance By Invitation Only

The programme for this international event is now nearing completion, come along and hear from Nick Nairn, representatives from Clydesdale Bank and Enterprise Rent-A-Car plus many others on how they have Transformed their Business Through IA.  Registrations for this event are now being taken.  If you would like to be kept informed please email info@ia-centre.org.uk or alternatively contact Starkevents on 0141 357 2235. 

The International Congress will also have sponsorship and exhibition opportunities.  Email if you are interested in finding out more!

This hands-on workshop, being run for Innovation Forss, will give you insights into the intangibles present in your own business. Learn more about how these valuable assets including your brand, contracts, customer databases, supplier relationships and intellectual property are vital to your business. The interactive challenges will give you the understanding you need to identify, manage and protect your IA to help your business grow and add value to the bottom line.

Scottish Intellectual Asset Management Ltd, a company funded by the Scottish Executive and part finance by the European Union, seeks Non-Executive Director for its Board.

Closing Date: 12 noon on Monday 25th June 2007 - see our Recruitment section for more details.

May's Masterclass, for software companies participating in Project VIA, is being held at One Up at 29 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow.

 This half day seminar will investigate the issues surrounding the significant problem of conterfeiting with a number of case studies, a look at the legal and regulatory issues and some potential solutions to these difficulties.

This event is free of charge and will be held in Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS from 9.00am - 1.00pm on Thursday 3 May 2007.

To register, please email: ross.mclennan@suip.co.uk

The IA Centre is seeking to recruit a Board Chair, effective as of May 2007, with the vision and passion to help prepare Scotland for being competitive in the new knowledge economy.

See the Recruitment Section for more details. 

Discover the 80/20 rule of intangible assets management... and more importantly, find out how it can benefit YOUR organistation. 

Now established as Scotland's number one business exhibition, newstartscotland brings together an array of Scotland's brighest and best known business leaders in an exceptional seminar line up alongside all the support organisations and commercial companies that can help you turn that business plan into reality or provide you with everything you need to help your existing business grow.

A workshop on Intellectual Property Rights which will focus on - How to protect, manage and exploit your company’s intellectual assets. This workshop will be hosted by the Intellectual Assets Centre. 

Find your hidden 80% value

 “Exciting and new high-profile projects” was how Diane Greenlees of the Strathclyde European Partnership described our Innovative Actions projects. Please join us to hear how you can get at the hidden value in your organisation, get involved by using our brand new IA valuation tool plus join our International virtual community going live on the day.

Practical exercises on how to manage the IA in your organisation covering all you need to make a start on your IA journey ... not forgetting the chance to test your knowledge using our newly developed Learning Loops. 

This is the 1st in a three-part series which will provide a more in-depth look at the stages of IA Management, designed to help decision-makers and implementers in your business take action to gain value from your hidden assets.  This will be a taster session helping you identify priority areas for further work as well as key actions for your business. 

The IA Centre's first International Congress is dealing with the issues surrounding valuing and communicating the value of your organisation's IA.  Intangible assets have supplanted tangible assets as the key value drivers for all organisations. However, traditional accounting has remained focused on tangible assets.  As a result, vital assets go unrecognised and are neither measured nor managed and certainly their value is not fully recognised.  As the name of the Congress suggests value is in the eye of the beholder.

Every business can make better use of its intellectual assets, finding innovative ways to unlock their hidden value, so often overlooked by management.  These events will reveal how to identify and manage these intangibles, and enable you to extract the most value from them.  This is a great opportunity to also see the new toolkits being developed as part of the innovative actions projects, with the opportunity to talk to IA centre staff and the project consultants about them.

A more in-depth look at the stages of IA Management, designed to help decision-makers and implementers in your business take action to gain value from your hidden assets. This will be a taster session helping you identify priority areas for further work as well as key actions for your business. 

Back in Scotland due to popular demand - this is a unique collaboration between The Patent Office, The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys and the Intellectual Assets Centre. 

In today's highly competitive global marketplace, companies need to use their intangible assets to the maximum to keep up with their competitors. Did you know that only 16% of Scottish companies manage their IA? Are you one of them? And given that up to 80% of the value of your business could be tied up in IA - what are you missing? Come along to find out more!