Case Studies.
On Monday Bloomberg broke the news that Ant Group, formerly Ant Financial, is officially planning a dual-listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai. It looks like it will be one of the largest IPO’s seen in years with the company reportedly seeking a valuation of at least $200 billion. In Q2 2019, the Hangzhou-based company owned zero patents with zero applications in waiting. It now has 1,439 active patents worldwide and its portfolio is growing fast.
Read MorePing An Technology, the core technology arm of insurance, banking, and financial services conglomerate Ping An Group, made a remarkable debut in WIPO’s 2019 top PCT filer list with 1,691 patent applications pushed through the international route – five times more than in 2018. The Chinese heavyweight has clear ambitions of becoming a “technology-plus-finance” company within the next decade, as outlined by the firm’s co-CEO Jessica Tan in an interview with Bloomberg.
Read MoreOver the last century or so, automotive industry players have been competing to leverage economies of scale as they undergo continuous innovation centered mainly on gasoline and diesel engines. However, new technologiy trends such as electric vehicles, carbon fiber and other advanced materials, and autonomous driving are fostering discontinuous (disruptive) innovation on parallel tracks, and this will likely cause tremendous structural changes.
Read MoreAn IAM Report by Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities and VALUENEX.
Regulatory reforms and technological disruption are transforming the research functions within major financial institutions. Now Japan’s biggest bank is attempting to harness IP big data to give it an inside edge on equity analysis.
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