Professor Henry Chesbrough first coined the term “Open Innovation” in 2003, describing Open Innovation (OI) as “a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well...Read more
Rimma Mitelman
Associate General Counsel, Lead IP Technology Agreements, Unilever, USA
Rimma leads IP Legal support for Technology Agreements - Open Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems, complex multi-party collaborations and consortia: structuring and negotiating agreements for evaluation, development, protection, enforcement, transfer and/or licensing of technology. Rimma's passion is to enable Unilever business with fast and effective technology agreement infrastructure, Rimma's current responsibilities build on her extensive experience as a patent attorney. Prior to her Legal carreer, Rimma was a bench chemist.