Swedish IP strategy consultancy with deep Graphene Flagship experience, specializing in patent strategy and technology commercialization for advanced materials.
KONSERT STRATEGY & IP AB is a Swedish intellectual property strategy consultancy based in Gothenburg that specializes in IP management, patent strategy, and technology commercialization for deep technology sectors. Their name — "Strategy & IP" — defines their function: they help research organizations and companies build, protect, and exploit IP portfolios in frontier technology areas. In the Graphene Flagship, Europe's billion-euro bet on graphene as a platform technology, KONSERT contributed as a third-party expert — likely providing IP strategy, freedom-to-operate analysis, or technology transfer advisory rather than conducting bench research. This is a firm that sits at the boundary between scientific discovery and market application, helping translate research outputs into protectable and commercially viable assets.
Contributed as third-party expert in both GrapheneCore1 and GrapheneCore2 — the core phases of the EU Graphene Flagship — indicating a sustained mandate in IP management for graphene and layered materials.
Repeated engagement across consecutive Graphene Flagship core projects suggests a role in bridging basic research outputs (GrapheneCore1) to application-specific commercialization pathways (GrapheneCore2).
GrapheneCore2 keywords span composite materials, energy, electronics, photonics, sensors, and biomedical technologies — a breadth consistent with multi-vertical patent landscaping or freedom-to-operate advisory.
In GrapheneCore1 (2016–2018), the keyword footprint is narrow — graphene, layered materials, and innovation — suggesting involvement at the foundational IP level: establishing the patent baseline and innovation governance for a new material class. By GrapheneCore2 (2018–2020), the keyword set expands dramatically to cover composite materials, energy applications, electronics, photonics, sensors, and biomedical technologies, indicating a shift toward application-specific IP work as graphene research matured into deployable verticals. The trajectory is from foundational IP framing to multi-sector commercialization strategy — a natural evolution for an IP consultancy following a technology from lab to market.
KONSERT appears to be deepening its position as a specialist IP advisor for platform technologies with broad application potential — organizations developing graphene, 2D materials, or similarly cross-cutting deep tech are a natural fit for future collaboration.
KONSERT participates exclusively as a third party — never as a project coordinator or named consortium partner — which is characteristic of specialized service providers such as IP law firms, patent consultancies, or technology transfer advisors contracted by consortium members. They do not lead projects or hold grant agreements; they are brought in to support specific functions within larger research programs. The 238 consortium partners and 24 countries in their network data reflect the enormous scale of the Graphene Flagship itself, not KONSERT's own bilateral relationships.
KONSERT's two projects place them within the Graphene Flagship consortium — one of the largest research initiatives in EU history — giving indirect exposure to 238 partner organizations across 24 countries. Their actual bilateral network as an IP consultancy is not directly visible from project data, and should not be conflated with the Flagship's membership.
KONSERT occupies a rare niche: an IP strategy firm with direct, sustained engagement inside one of the EU's flagship deep-tech research programs, giving them firsthand knowledge of the graphene IP landscape that few consultancies can match. For organizations seeking to enter graphene-adjacent markets, file patents in this space, or assess freedom-to-operate, their insider perspective on the Graphene Flagship's IP architecture is a concrete differentiator. They are not a generic IP firm — their profile is specifically calibrated to science-to-market transitions in advanced materials.
