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title: "Interview: Shafiq Kabir on Smolteks evolvement and IP strategy"
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date: 2020-11-30
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# Interview: Shafiq Kabir on Smolteks evolvement and IP strategy

In decem­ber 2005 Shafiq Kabir found­ed a lit­tle com­pa­ny he liked to call “Shafiq’s Mol­e­c­u­lar Tech­no­log­i­cal Com­pa­ny”. The com­pa­ny name soon trans­formed into Smoltek and the first patent on how to grow nanos­truc­tures was filed. And ever since, there has been a con­stant evolve­ment of the company.

In this inter­view, Shafiq takes us on a jour­ney down mem­o­ry lane. From how every­thing start­ed, the evolve­ment of IP strat­e­gy and the com­pa­ny busi­ness model.

**Video:**Shafiq Kabir on IP and com­pa­ny evolvement