[Ebook] - Innovation a Natural Use Case for the Blockchain

[Ebook] – Innovation, a Natural Use Case for the Blockchain

One of the key issues in innovation is to attribute intellectual property to ideas in a way that rewards those who originate them. It must therefore be possible to prove that a given person or organisation is the originator of an idea, at a given date. Therefore the primary use case we are interested in concerns the blockchain to trace the evidence of various intellectual property rights such as copyright, know-how and of course patents .

The second use case of interest for the blockchain is the management and exploitation of rights via ‘smart-contracts’