Topics
Four Topics, One Room
Every Invention Cafe® session is built from the same four topics, which sit under three themes: innovation culture, productivity and commercialisation. A given city leans toward one or two of them, so the United States programme as a whole covers the full set.
Patent Economics and National Prosperity
What a country's patent output can and cannot tell us about its growth, productivity and future prosperity.
Read more →Organisational Innovation Culture
The leadership, incentives and everyday habits that decide whether an organisation keeps producing ideas and acts on them.
Read more →Commercialisation and Licensing
How a protected invention reaches a market, whether through the owner's own product or through a licence to someone better placed to use it.
Read more →University Tech Transfer and Spin-offs
How research done in universities reaches industry, through technology transfer offices, licences and new companies.
Read more →Looking for a city? See the full 2027 schedule, or read how the sessions are run on the About page.