Intangible assets deserve closer scrutiny

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Intangible assets deserve closer scrutiny

IPStudies SARL
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SWITZERLAND
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Dr. Corinne Le Buhan – Founder and Principal Consultant

I was born in Brittany, France, in 1971. As a child, I was both curious and creative, so in order to learn more about our world and how to develop some concrete improvements to it, I chose to study engineering and graduated with a MSc. in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rennes, in 1994.

After one year working on artificial intelligence and computer vision projects in Grenoble, I joined the multicultural Signal Processing Lab lead by Pr. Murat Kunt at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, as a research scientist in the field of digital television, and I completed my PhD in communication systems in 1998.

From 1999 to 2001, I integrated the R&D department of Nagravision at the Kudelski group headquarters near Lausanne to develop a digital PayTV broadcast system. From 2001 to 2010, my responsibilities were progressively extended to managing various research projects, international digital TV standardization activities, and intellectual property. After joining the CTO office in 2004, I setup the Patents & Publications office in 2007, where I was in charge with managing the patent portfolio for about 200 international patent families. I was promoted VP Technology Knowledge Management in 2009.

In parallel, I graduated with honors in strategic management of intellectual property and innovation at the university of Strasbourg, France, in 2008, in collaboration with the IP training institute IEEPI where I also completed the Licensing Executive Society advanced module for licensing managers in 2011.

In 2010, I decided to take on a new challenge by starting my own business as IP & technology strategy consultant and valuation analyst. I am currently supporting various entrepreneurs and CTOs in their IP portfolio development and valuation strategies as a freelance consultant.

So far, I am the author/co-author of 18 scientific and technical publications, as well as the inventor/co-inventor of 17 international patent applications. I keep on learning about new technologies and further innovate on my own in my free time – in Summer 2011, my proposal “Creative Sharing Index” has been selected as the winner of The Economist-Innocentive Human Potential Index Challenge, and I had the opportunity to present it at The Economist Ideas Economy: Human Potential conference in New York in September 2011.

I currently live in the Swiss Alps with my husband Frederic Jordan, also a technology entrepreneur, and our two daughters.