Running an Open Innovation or Prize Competition Programme: A Practitioner's Guide to Submission Terms, Evaluation Records, Prize Rules, and Downstream Rights
By Casey Scott McKay ·
A working guide to designing, running, and defending a programme that receives ideas from outside the organisation. It opens with the question every programme must answer before anything else — procurement, scouting, or marketing — and shows how each produces a different legal architecture. It then covers the unsolicited submission policy, the submission terms and what they can and cannot do, the evaluation record and firewall that actually decide disputes, contributor assignments at events, prize competition compliance, and the commercialisation handover. It closes with three worked engagements and a proportionate version for small organisations.
IP and Technology > IP and IT in Corporate Transactions | Guide | Published 27 July 2024 - Updated 29 March 2026 | Casey Scott McKay - marksy.us
The question to answer first
Before drafting anything, make somebody senior answer this: what is the programme for?
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