What we do

New ideas are essential to businesses, relevant to society and a window into the future.

Ideas Matter helps to bring perpectives into clearer focus by providing leaders a forum to address the relevance of new ideas. Users and affiliates include businesses of all types and sizes, inventors, content industry creators, consumers, educators, students, universities and IP organizations.

Ideas Matter was established in 2012 by Philips and Microsoft and is now a part of IPBasics.org, an educational initiative of the nonproft Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU). Patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets help companies large and small, individuals and economies to grow. They also help level the competitive playing field and encourage sharing.