Conglomerate One

Conglomerate One
by Ian Tyner (Chairman)

Merging SMEs Towards Optimisation

Managerial, Coding, Developer, Legal, Communication And Strategy Expertise

Vertical Integrations.
Horizontal Diversifications.
Conglomerate Opolys.

Did you know combining value advances markets when there is a foci of IPR and the Blockchain?

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World Intellectual Property Rights and Our Blockchain

The existing lacuna that dismantles the success of the SMEs is the financial, labour, infrastructure, network, organisation support, among others are the elements that expose the SMEs to become unsuccessful either prior to the launch and or post launching. In addition, the SMEs face immense challenges when engaging crowdfunding and or applying for funding from various financial institutions within or outside their jurisdiction of operation.

As a result of immense frustration, the SMEs tend to put on sale their entity, not to mention that the SMEs tend to gain low pay due to the economic duress that they encounter.

However, those are not the only challenges that SMEs encounter, for instance, certain high tech innovations be it software or hardware, there is always the question concerning legal protection of the Intellectual Property Rights. However, most Intellectual Property Rights, if not all, are territorial in nature, therefore, registering the sub rights of Intellectual Property Rights does not necessary enhance the assumed protection in other Jurisdictions save where one utilises regional and international rostrums like:

1. a) World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO);
2. b) European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);
3. c) African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO);
4. d) African Intellectual Property Organisation (OAPI/ AIPO);
5. e) United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO);
6. f) Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (the“Madrid Protocol”);
7. g) Eurasian Patent Convention (E/APC);
8. h) Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), among others.

The lack of legal protection to the respective Intellectual Property Rights exposes the SMEs to their competitors or any financially stable person that is likely to harness the IPRs, hence, making the SMEs lose their grip, which eventually leads to the dwindling of the SMEs. In addition, to certain extent, it is always close to impossible to tell who is the owner of the IPRs should it happen not have been registered, hence, throwing SMEs under the bus by large corporates that intend to harness the IPRs or technologies by the SMEs.

The SMEs need to have an immediate solution, which will not be based on multiple complex procedures and or protracted measures that a person needs to follow for purposes of enabling their projects to attain funds to make their goals realised. In light of that, the Conglomerate One intends to develop a Blockchain concept that will harmonise various procedures that will ease the manner in which the SMEs will harness opportunities and develop the same to higher lengths.

Competitive Landscape Understanding The Wider Impact

First Intra-Challenge & Solution It is important to note that for mergers and acquisitions to take effect, there is need to follow certain Jurisdiction based policies, for instance, seeking exemptions and or making sure the business entity complies with the respective Anti-Trust or Competition Laws within a certain country.

Second Intra-Challenge & Solution In order to engage in merger and acquisitions, there is need to provide information concerning the operations of the SMEs, which will include but not limited to the State based Compliance with the laws and regulations concerning Corporate Governance (tax, filing of annual returns, charges, subsidiary, assets, et al.).

Executive Overview

Conglomerate One is a platform that will bring together various types of Small Medium-sized Enterprises (the “SMEs”) to realise common goals either through vertical, horizontal and conglomerate relations of every SMEs that exist in the world, not to mention the ones that will emerge as time progresses. The relationships will be based on the concept of merger and acquisition between and or among the SMEs, which shall be under one fundamental organisation, the Conglomerate One. The phrase SMEs has attracted various definitions across the globe, thus, the legislative houses, non-governmental organisations and or financial institutions have all thrown weight into defining and or taking advantage of the challenges coming along with SMEs.

It is evident that even in fields where well established companies could only take part in, for instance, issuance of Securities / Stock (the Initial Public Offering or Follow- on Public Offerings – “IPO” and “FPO” respectively), the current practice is welcoming SMEs to harness funding through use of issuance of Securities.

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Securities Revisited

Third Intra-Challenge & Solution The relationship between the Conglomerate One and that of the SMEs is autonomous. Therefore, the liability, be it directly or indirectly, unless stated otherwise, will be based on the respective parties, thus, Conglomerate One or the SMEs individually or as a merger or acquisitions, vertical and horizontal.

The issuance of securities through tailored State backed IPO and FPO throws SMEs to murky legal regimes based on compliance. However, irrespective of all that, it is evident that SMEs are becoming more important, hence, the need to give them the attention that they deserve.

The World Trade Organisation (the “WTO”) Report of 2016 “Levelling the trading field for SMEs”, it mentions that SMEs are organisations that have employees of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 250. The definition by WTO has received backing from the Eurostat Statistics Explained “Statistics on small and medium-sized enterprises” but goes ahead to make further subcategories. In order to appreciate this finding, it is imperative to assess the number of founders and teammates of start-ups (which form part SMEs) taking advantage of crowdfunding as a source to finance their venture. According to McCarthy Denning, an International Law firm, states that SMEs are taking advantage of Angel Investors and or use crowdsource platforms to gain money for running their respective projects, not to mention the fact that they are made up of small cohort of co-founders.

In the year 2000, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (the “OECD”) through its brief policy “Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Local Strength, Global Reach”, it reported that SMEs account for at least 95% of the firms in the member States, not to mention that the SMEs promote 60%-70% of employment. Therefore, in assessing the availability of resources, thus, labour, money, infrastructure, and or technology, during the year 2000 and now, it is evident that there is immense change that should project the view that the SMEs play a major role in revenue generation and employment rates in the recent years and years to come.

The SMEs face various challenges but among those many, the most critical one is availability of the required resources. Therefore, many SMEs windup because of lack of various forms of support, which can be based on financial and labour, and lack of political will within a given jurisdiction to advance a favourable room for the SMEs.

In light of all the above, the Conglomerate One, provides a platform that is in line with the current innovative and reliable technology across the globe, which includes the use of Blockchain Technology.

The Conglomerate One will harness the use of technology and effect clear protocols based on codes that will make it easy for SMEs to easily engage in vertical, horizontal or conglomerate merges and acquisitions.

The relationship between the Conglomerate One and the SMEs will interlink but with a minimization of direct and or indirect liability, which include but not limited to civil or criminal liability, tax or statutory based liability, whether strict or not.

Our Internationalisation Approach

Conglomerate One will enhance the process of Internationalisation of SMEs. Internationalisation of SMEs is defined by WTO “…as how a firm conducts business activities in foreign countries through indirect exports, direct exports, international subcontracting (licensing or outsourcing) or investment.” Therefore, any SMEs dealing in the above and or intend to widen their respective spectrum, are likely to be internationalised through mergers and acquisitions. The analysis of WTO provides that Internationalisation of SMEs takes places in four steps, which include the traditional gradual approach; “born global”; “born-again global”; and global value chain participation. The use of Conglomerate One will reduce the traditional gradual growth of SMEs but span the born global, born-again global and global value chain participation through effective use of merger and acquisitions.

Conglomerate One Explained

An SME seeks to expand past their benchmark: the venturer submits their value, so that the Conglomerate One system can properly arbitrate the value of the proposed influx and the value of the totality of Conglomerate One, which is then meshed for dynamic resolution. This byproduct becomes part of the Conglomerate One Blockchain, which is then shifted alongside the Blockchain of the SME’s influx, whether or not they part of that digital spectrum. With an international expertise of Intellectual Property Rights, the form for continuous delivery is then expanded upon so that new entrants and existing participants, can together, combine to the exponential.