Protection and commercialization of intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets) can equal serious competitive advantage to any technology-driven business.

INOV8’s regular visitors likely are familiar with Space Photonics, the UA Genesis Tech Incubator firm that just landed a Defense Department contract.

In 1980, George and a few other intrepid techpreneurs and research scientists jumped out of their corporate jobs and academic positions to create a new kind of company…

In the morning session, Little Rock commercial real-estate magnate Hank Kelley offered his take on the current environment. While it included its share of gloom and doom — nationwide, the commercial real estate market is down 26 percent with another 14 to go, he said — Kelley offered a glimpse of the silver lining.