This bulletin will introduce you to a number of helpful initiatives, tools and services such as the Horizon Results Platform, the Horizon Results Booster or the new Horizon IP Scan service, which have been launched by the European Commission to help beneficiaries better deal with IP issues and boost the uptake and exploitation of their research results.

Moreover, an article showcasing the EC’s new Open Research Platform addresses the question of how intellectual property protection and the EU’ Open Science Policy go together. And it will draw our attention to two major actors of the European innovation ecosystem and integral building blocks of the programme’s third pillar “Innovative Europe”: the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Technology and Innovation (EIT).

Both promote specific IP policies and provisions in their funding actions to ensure beneficiaries do not only have intellectual property strategies in place, but are also able to successfully put them into practice.