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IP Finance: Using Intellectual Property as Loan Collateral

IP finance in Malaysia takes a major step forward as MIDF becomes the first bank to sign an MOU with WIPO under the ASEAN IP Finance initiative

UK’s Cambridge AtomWorks to buy ODIN micro nuclear reactor tech from US firm NANO Nuclear Energy for $6.2m

Hong Kong government to launch IP-backed finance ‘sandbox’ to help IP-rich firms raise finance, will promote IP as collateral

UK government clears IonQ’s $1bn acquisition of UK’s Oxford Ionics, but with quantum strings attached

GII 2025 ranking of the world’s top innovation clusters – China and US have most clusters, followed by Germany, India and the UK