How does Intellectual Property Help Small Companies Grow?

Strong intellectual property protections are essential for small company growth. They allow an innovator to  take a new idea or invention and develop it into a viable product, all while creating new jobs and investment for local economies.

Willem Van Weperen, the CEO of toBBB, a pharmaceutical company in the Netherlands explains how intellectual property has helped his company develop from two people in a lab to a company that supports 22 jobs and is continuing to grow.