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Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Accelerators are a way of helping new businesses to establish themselves.  They are short programmes that last between 4 and 12 months in which groups of entrepreneurs known as "cohorts" refine their business plans and are given the skills, knowledge and connections they need to succeed.  NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) published a research paper and directory of accelerators and incubators last year which I discussed in  Business Incubators and Accelerators Directory   20 April 2017 NIPC News. On 22 April 2017 I discussed the  Accelerators and Incubators in the Leeds City Region   in IP Yorkshire and on the 24 I considered those in Sheffield in  Accelerators and Incubators in the Sheffield City Region .   I also mentioned a new fintech accelerator in Dubai in   FinTech in Dubai    3 Aug 2017 in NIPC Gulf. Since a lot of inventors fail...

An early form of FinTech Photo HB Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert A lot of money is going into FinTech (financial services technology) in this country and overseas nowadays including accelerator programmes promoted by our central bank and one of our major clearers (see the Bank of England's FinTech page  and the Barclays Accelerator  as well as details of the other accelerator programmes in the table below). But how is all that investment in FinTech to be protected if indeed it is to be protected at all?  In an extract from a longer article in Gluon.  Steve Findley and Vanni Torelli ask whether IP is so important to FinTech (see  Fintech Startups – is IP important?   The FinTech Times). In view of the amounts of money involved, I should be very surprised if it were not. Findley and Torelli argued that of the top 35 FinTec h  unicorns  than 25% have filed for patents. I am not in the least surprised by that statistic....