{"id":23225,"date":"2015-05-28T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/?p=23225"},"modified":"2021-02-15T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T09:30:09","slug":"legal-support-for-start-ups-on-a-global-scale-ilinc-the-european-network-of-ict-law-incubators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/legal-support-for-start-ups-on-a-global-scale-ilinc-the-european-network-of-ict-law-incubators\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal support for Start-ups on a Global Scale \u2013 iLINC, the European Network of ICT Law Incubators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet startups face many challenges, not least of which are the legal conundrums that often emerge in the fast-moving world of technology innovation. In fact, sometimes even lawyers are not able to determine how startups should shape their products and business models in order to satisfy regulatory requirements. Quite simply, innovation processes are usually faster than the legislator.<\/p>\n

Startups do usually not have the funds to pay for expensive legal support, an expense that would be several times higher if the services of lawyers were sought at every twist and turn in the early stages of product and business model development. Lawyers would need to continually update business-to-business or end-user agreements or constantly examine a moving target of conformity with copyright and data protection law.<\/p>\n

This fundamental dilemma often results in startups not seeking any legal help at all. This is where tech-focussed, university-based law clinics provide a unique solution – they provide legal support to startups for free, be it for educational or research purposes. It is a perfect match: while startups get help coping with their legal uncertainties, students are trained from the outset, not to become the \u2018yes-but lawyers\u2019 of yesteryear, but the progressive and responsible enablers of innovative change in the legal world of tomorrow.<\/p>\n

In order to support law clinics in their work, the European Commission has funded the iLINC<\/a>, the European Network of ICT Law Incubators. With the aim of facilitating thought leadership and the exchange of best practices in providing legal support to startups, iLINC extends worldwide to connect law clinics with ICT startups and entrepreneurs. As an integral part of this project, the Hans-Bredow-Institute<\/a> together with the Alexander von Humboldt-Institute for Internet and Society<\/a> hosted the third conference, on the 18th and 19th of May in Berlin. While other core partners of the network, the London-based law clinic qLegal<\/a> and the Amsterdam-based law clinic CLNC<\/a>, focussed on the setup of the network and the educational aspects at the previous two conferences, the third conference focussed on the interdisciplinary potential of startup support.<\/p>\n\n\t\n\t\t

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