EIPIN-Innovation Society is an EU funded Horizon 2020 project at the forefront of multidisciplinary research. It was set up in 2017 to examine the role of intellectual property (IP) as a complex adaptive system in innovation. The ambition is to enhance Europe’s capacity to foster innovation-based sustainable economic growth globally. Fifteen doctoral candidates have been carrying out research on a number of topics of great societal interest. The aim is to provide reliable results and recommendations that can guide inventors and entrepreneurs through the lifecycle of IP-intensive assets that takes human creativity into the marketplace. This conference is aimed at discussing the adaptive complexities of innovation cycles and how we can secure economic benefits and uphold justice in the innovation society.