Intellectual Ventures | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 18/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures


00:00:57 1 Overview
00:02:38 2 Investment funds
00:03:20 3 Intellectual Ventures Lab
00:06:54 4 Global Good
00:09:24 5 Companies created
00:10:02 6 Controversy



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SUMMARY
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Intellectual Ventures is a private company that centers on the development and licensing of intellectual property. Intellectual Ventures is one of the top-five owners of U.S. patents, as of 2011. Its business model has a focus on buying patents and aggregating them into a large patent portfolio and licensing these patents to third parties.
In 2009, the firm launched a prototyping and research laboratory,  Intellectual Ventures Lab, which attracted media controversy when the book SuperFreakonomics described its ideas for reducing global climate change. The firm also collaborates on humanitarian projects through its Global Good program.