We held our first joint event with IP100 on 29 March, which some of you attended. It was exciting to see so many inspiring innovators in one room, sharing their growth stories and addressing the challenges of scaling up an IP-rich business, and to hear business advisors giving tips to high-growth companies on how to avoid common scale-up oversights.

A big shout out to our event sponsors – Jumpstart, Cenkos and Mills & Reeve for their support and passion!

IP100 is the UK’s dedicated ecosystem for IP-rich companies built the IP League Table (‘IPLT’) which produces an annual ranking of companies based on both the quality of their IP assets and their track record in exploiting them. 

The IP100 has become the UK’s fastest growing marketplace for scalable and IP-rich SMEs seeking to grow and raise money. Several ELITE companies are part of IP100, with notable success story M Squared who topped this year’s IP League Table Rankings, published earlier this month.

Dr. Graeme Malcolm OBE, CEO and Founder of M Squared commented: "M Squared sets out to create the most advanced lasers and photonic instruments on the market, enabling greater leaps forward in scientific discovery and technological advancement in areas such as quantum technology, biophotonics, and chemical sensing.

Take the rapidly growing field of quantum technology, for example; it's a highly complicated area of study and development relies on ground-breaking advances in physics. Remarkable progress is being made in this field, and we are pleased to be at the heart of that and generating IP in such a promising area.”

Dr. Graeme Malcolm OBE, CEO and Founder of M Squared

Stephen Robertson from IP100 commented: “It was a delight to score M Squared for the 2017 IP League Table. The Company’s IP portfolio was immensely impressive, with robust and comprehensive protection measures in place to protect each of M Squared’s five IP asset classes: Brand & Reputation, Patents, Software, Critical Databases and Trade Secrets. With such a varied and complex IP portfolio, M Squared was able to top this year’s extremely competitive IP League Table.”

We look forward to tracking the success of ELITE companies joining the IP100 on their growth journey and welcoming IP100 companies to ELITE.

 

You can apply to be part of the IP100 by filling in a short questionnaire here.