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History of the Institute

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Founded in 1969 by Colonel Vigers whose long experience of international licensing suggested the real need for a professional organ to represent the interests of independent practitioners and equally as a means to promote public access to licensing services in the UK. The late sixties marked a period of burgeoning new technologies and innovations after the difficult post war years and the then NILP, as it first came to be known, soon expanded to provide a complete programme of services and seminars here and overseas.

The guiding principle of the Institute then and now being to set common standards in the exploitation of new products and technologies by way of licensing and to procure for the innovator one or more expert individuals with the contacts and expertise to make innovation happen.

The National Institute of Licensing Practitioners as it then was, so successfully promoted its services and educational seminars beyond the UK and into the US, Europe and the Far East that a change of name became inevitable and in the late seventies the IILP became the new professional body for this purpose when it absorbed the original business and was newly incorporated under this name.

Much work was done by the Institute’s founders in promoting accessibility to a wide range of worldwide technology within databanks, most distinguished of whom was the late Dr Dvorkovitz who worked tirelessly at trade fairs and at business seminars to establish a worthwhile resource for those seeking new products to exploit from his radical new databank. His efforts and worldwide lecture tours eventually heralded the setting up of international technology exchange fairs throughout the US, Europe and the Far East.

These proved extremely popular and much enhanced the Institute’s reputation and membership.
In conjunction with this development there came about the Centre for Innovation in Industry during the 1980’s, which built on these tour experiences in developing databanks and brought the techniques to the attention of our most distinguished industrial companies, who came to use the Centres for research and it’s consultants for both inward and outward licensing programmes.

Since inception the Institute has continued to forge links throughout industry, government and related professions. It has sustained a strict code of conduct, developed its specialist services and participated widely in the education and training of those expressing an interest in the industry. To mark the Institute’s fortieth year it is very much hoped that its forthcoming application for a Royal Charter will be successful.