Our Approach to Innovation

Intellectual Property can be one of the most important outputs of innovation. This includes the ability to protect your ideas, ensure that you have freedom to operate in your chosen markets, and take advantage of a range of tax benefits.

KLI brings together innovation expertise and legal expertise to provide an enlightened innovation approach that identifies opportunities & risks that would otherwise be missed. Next Gen innovation needs to take a lean approach, consider corporate portfolio risk, understand and monetise IP, and be underpinned by a professionally-assured process.

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Create

Ideas are just the start. Finding the right audience, proving there is demand, and identifying opportunity in the IP landscape is where ideas get real.

Strategy

Innovation cuts across traditional boundaries and calls for a strategic approach to your portfolio, processes, leadership and resources.

Delivery

Creating the business model, designing and developing the product and service, commercialising, protecting brand and data rights.

Build Capability

Innovation isn't a one-off process. To boost your continuing effectiveness your people need to engage creatively and with new skills.

How can we help you?

Innovation Services

Training

We provide innovation training for staff, managers and execs. Boost innovation effectiveness and engage staff.

Innovation Labs

An Innovation Lab is a unique physical environment that enables high levels of interaction and productivity among participants.

Find product market-fit

The secret of success is the finding the exact combination of great product and strong market demand.

Ideation

Change is inevitable. Innovation is not. Bring ideas to life and immediately find ways to test their desirability with potential customers.

Innovation Audit

A clear assessment of current capability, and accelerated path to transform your innovation practice.

Innovation culture

Identify and develop the innovation leaders, innovation champions, and creative geniuses in your organisation

Innovation Portfolio Review

A review of your innovation portfolio and processes, including IP issues.

IP strategies

By treating IP as a valuable strategic asset, many companies can significantly enhance their value.

Questions about innovation and IP? Get in touch

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Engaging consumers while maintaining secrecy

Ideally you would want to identify your best target market before product launch, but early market testing can risk alerting competitors to your plans. Gerard has helped many start-ups and corporates to properly assess product-market fit without giving the game away, and hence allow laser-sharp launch tactics. In most cases, it is best to establish product-market fit before you even commence product development!

Creating disruptive ideas

For a large international consumer credit agency, Gerard delivered an 8-week ideation sprint, generating horizon 2 and 3 ideas to deliver financial security to people in an evermore uncertain world. Ideas were tested directly with consumers, but off-brand. This gave a very early indication of whether an idea was genuinely desirable to consumers before any significant funding was invested.

Industry & Competitor IP Analysis

Understanding the IP landscape in your industry or, indeed, adjacent industries is an essential step in the innovation process. By determining where competitors have first mover advantage, or conversely where white space exists that is not covered by IP and patents, your own efforts can be more focused and with reduced risk. Chris regularly undertakes IP landscape analysis to help our clients in a variety of industries.

Freeing up Fee Earner Time

Minimising admin load on fee earners directly drives value in professional services. Gerard led a team to quickly build apps that allowed staff to solve common IT and HR issues, book rooms and navigate to them within unfamiliar buildings. As well as saving fee earner time, this allowed the internal service desk to be scaled back considerably.

Loyalty Card Service Provider

Gerard created an innovation incubator for this well-known loyalty card brand, including design of processes and financials, and senior level coaching. He also created org-wide training programme to build capability and introduce the Innovation Playbook that guided every employee in the organisation how to shape ideas and propose them to the incubator.

Contracting for Innovation

With 100+ innovative projects about to be launched, terms of reference with current software and services providers were out of date, each requiring a new and unique set of contractual demands. Chris designed a new contractual framework mapped to a range of innovation archetypes to allow a modular and flexible contractual architecture to be used. The resulting framework has not only reduced effort and risk but also enabled collaborative forms of engagement with a range of different 3rd parties to be part of the firm’s innovation capabilities.

Tuli Faas – Head of IP Legal - SITA

"Kemp Little has acted as an insightful partner in key technologies, cloud, data and the “internet” of things, which has enabled us, as a team, to drive IP strategies and practices across the organisation and provide greater IP focus.”

Working closely with colleagues in Kemp Little, Chris developed an integrated approach to the definition, protection and exploitation of IP. This work included mapping relevant IP themes to the client’s business model to maximise the value of patent investments, competitor analysis and internal initiatives to capture and develop critical expertise and know-how.

Finding Product-Market Fit

Ideation

IP Landscape

Big 4 Professional Services

Creating Innovation Culture

Multinational Professional Services Firm

Strategic Innovation & IP

Team of Experts

From our blog

Integrating Innovation & IP

by Gerard Frith December 18, 2018

Leaving IP considerations and tools out of the innovation process is akin to throwing money and market intelligence out of the window.

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Email

hello@kl-innovation.com

Address

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138 Cheapside

London

EC2V 6BJ

Telephone

020 7600 8080

Our Approach to Innovation

Create

Strategy

Delivery

Build Capability

How can we help you?

Innovation Services

Training

Innovation Labs

Find product market-fit

Ideation

Innovation Audit

Innovation culture

Innovation Portfolio Review

IP strategies

Questions about innovation and IP? Get in touch

Engaging consumers while maintaining secrecy

Creating disruptive ideas

Industry & Competitor IP Analysis

Freeing up Fee Earner Time

Loyalty Card Service Provider

Contracting for Innovation

Tuli Faas – Head of IP Legal - SITA

Finding Product-Market Fit

Ideation

IP Landscape

Big 4 Professional Services

Creating Innovation Culture

Multinational Professional Services Firm

Strategic Innovation & IP

Team of Experts

Gerard Frith

Paul Garland

Chris Wray

From our blog

Integrating Innovation & IP

Get in Touch

Email

Address

Telephone

Integrating Innovation & IP