A new roadmap to enhance, manage and protect intellectual property This represents an important step that not only establishes a new IP (“intellectual property”) framework, but also represents a strategic decision for Finmeccanica to upgrade the management of its IP, which has over the years resulted in valuable operating tools such as the Innovation Award, the Patent of the year, the centralised database for the Group patent portfolio and conferences and structured workshops dedicated to the selection and dissemination of the key technological innovations.