The mission of Social Ventures (SVs) is not mere money making, but solving social issues. The progress of SV contributes for social innovation. As a hypothesis setting, we put that intellectual property (IP) strategy may apply to SV, because it penetrates gradually from the big enterprises to small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to make them competitive. In this reason, we choose the correlation between the development of SVs and intellectual property strategy. Here, we report the findings of a study in which we sampled. Surprisingly, we found that respective five SVs are aware of the importance of IP and its rights (e.g. trade secrets, trade marks and so on) from the result of the collected data. We also found that IP strategy can apply to SV to some extent, and in this context we conducted case study of “Madre Bonita (Beautiful Mother)”. Our results point out further possibility of IP management development which is lower priority compared with finance or marketing for the limited human resources SV has at present. Especially, the wisdom of license which is a typical tool of IP may work at the stage of scale-out to diffuse SV's goods or service in other districts or territories.

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