Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Manager

• Support the Innovation and Future Technology (IFT) in Italy in stimulating and supporting the technological transfer of internal innovative initiatives towards other departments:

• Evaluating innovative proposals that can be integrated into our business for better outcomes or to create new products/services, analysing their feasibility and potential for success.
• Acting as a bridge between various departments, ensuring cohesive, cross-functional team working on innovative ideas.
• Ensuring that the identified innovation can be easily aligned with existing processes and systems.
• Measuring the success of innovative projects, ensuring they bring value to the organization.
• Creating awareness, stimulating innovation, improving innovation initiatives, facilitating development of innovation vision and strategy, helping to design processes and frameworks that encourage innovation.
• Shifting organizational culture, ensuring employees are open to new ideas and methodologies.
• Support the Group Head of IP and Technology Partnerships, leading IP Management activities in MBDA Italy such as:

• Develop IP awareness and support innovators regarding the protection of inventions.
• Manage and coordinate IP and report relevant IP information and status.
• Lead the organisation of the Italian IP protection committee and prepare the IP decisions (e.g. for patent filing together with external patent attorneys).
• Deal with the drafting of patent applications, prepare opinions on the implementation possibilities and, more generally, provide the necessary consultancy within MBDA Italy to protect our innovations, within a very varied projects and inventions with different technical realities.
• Implement and update IP relevant processes, strategy and policy and contribute to MBDA Group IP initiatives (e.g. introduction and usage of IP tools, patent monitoring).
• Facilitate the definition of IP rules in technology partnerships (with SMEs, Universities, …).

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