“I started thinking about the process outlined by CreaCORN when I founded my first startup called Quintel SA. As CEO of that company (1984-2000), I struggled with several challenges that startups face; and in particular:

• National patent applications and international extensions.
• Valuation of intangible assets brought to the company by creators, co-founders, engineers, managers, vendors and employees.
  
• Market studies.
  
• Business plans.
  
• Negotiations with shareholders and other investors.
  
• Grants and research contracts from various public agencies.
  
• Design of prototypes, software, manufacturing and robotics.
  
• Signing confidentiality agreements to present our innovations to other companies.
  
• Product certification to ISO and Department of Defense standards.
  
• Commercial documentation and public relations.
  
• Marketing and sales of research and products.
  
• Intellectual property and unfair competition disputes in court.
  
• Amicable settlement of disputes.

In my role as intellectual property advisor for the European Inventors Association, I have had discussions with various stakeholders on these issues:

• Members of the ten national organizations represented.
  
• Numerous European inventors who face the challenge of funding and commercializing their innovations.
  
• Various professional groups that support them in this endeavor.
  
• Banks and venture capitalists.
  
• Public authorities responsible for implementing basic intellectual property requirements in accordance with commitments made in human rights treaties.

In 2008, I founded a second startup to promote a new legislative platform and the Global Plan for Climate Change (GP3C).

Five years later, I founded a third startup with the goal of addressing the funding difficulties of startups and promoting their breakthrough innovations. For this reason, I wrote the 112 articles of the Universal Intellectual Property Standard.

The net gains from these inputs amounted to no less than 4,356 working days. They facilitated the structuring of the basic tools such as:

• The CreaBOOK.
  
• The certification exams.
  
• The Multiplier.
  
• The Joint Report included in amicable settlement procedure.
  
• The Mutual creation Insurance.

The elaboration of the first version of CreaCORN CreaBOOK took no more than 4 working days. In the foundation phase it was revised three times and took a total of 28 working days. The consulting and translation work in the seed phase took 25 more working days.“