Snapshot Brief:

Individuals in Research Support (RS) & Knowledge Exchange (KE) support roles can learn how to become effective IP Commercialisation Professionals within the University environment by attending this intensive 1-day course. KE Professionals who are transitioning or intend to transition onto IP commercialisation roles within Research Support Office (RSO) or Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of a University often struggle to prepare Self alongside their current roles due to lack of mentors in guiding on IP exploitations aspect.

Requirements

• Reasonable experience of providing Research & Knowledge-Exchange support to a research project
• Working experience in research-intensive institutions or having an interest to do so
• Knows basics of Intellectual Properties (e.g. patent, copyright, trademark, design right)
• Able to use online training platforms & basic IT tools (e.g. Zoom, Google Meet, MS Office)

Features

• Sharing practical case examples of sample IP Commercialisation projects in UK Universities
• Easy to adopt techniques and approaches by Technology Transfer Staffs on own research commercialisation projects
• Explaining bigger picture logic of 'how IP management & IP exploitation can be done'
• All-in-One training course capturing the essential needs to be a Technology Transfer Staff

Target audiences

• Post-Graduate (PG) Research Students or Students with Research interest
• Research Support (RS) Professionals (in Universities for grant applications by researchers)
• Knowledge Exchange (KE) Professionals (moving into Technology Transfer support role)
• IP Commercialisation and Technology Transfer Professionals

Research Support (RS) and Knowledge Exchange (KE) Professionals who are transitioning or intend to transition onto IP commercialisation roles within Research Support Office (RSO) or Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of a University often struggle to prepare Self alongside their current roles due to lack of mentors in guiding on IP exploitations aspect.

Such a situation faced by budding IP Commercialisation Professionals is partly due to the lack of training courses created with ‘an easy way of correlating the IP commercialisation course-contents to the existing background knowledge of KE professionals’ and ‘direct usability of the taught IP commercialisation skills/knowledge in a University environment (instead of being trained to be an IP Expert or IP Lawyer)’.

Individuals in Research Support (RS) and Knowledge Exchange (KE) support roles can learn how to become effective IP Commercialisation Professionals within the University environment by attending this intensive 1-day course. This course intends to demystify the IP basics of how to support a research/commercialisation project from the aspects of both IP Management and IP Exploitation (by building upon existing skills/experience of an individual in research support and knowledge exchange roles).

A professional staff in a TTO or a relevant ‘research and knowledge exchange support office’ of a University is usually required to advise a researcher/academic on ‘what comprises background and foreground IPs in a research project or grant proposal’, ‘how to identify relevant market/customer segments appropriate for the research idea/IP from exploitation aspect’, ‘how to identify existing prior arts for the consideration of IP protection and competitors’, ‘what support activities may be needed from the initial idea disclosure till the end point of securing a licence or spinout formation’, ‘basics of contractual terms adopted in licensing and spinout agreements’, and ‘engaging potential licensees and investors relevant to the University IPs’.

What You’ll Learn From This Course

• Module-1: Beginning the journey of an IP Commercialisation Profession – Basics
• Module-2: Perfecting IP Commercialisation support for licensing/spinout outputs – Intermediate
• Module-3: Contract negotiation & Licensee/Investor engagement for licensing/spinout deals – Advanced

Certification

All attendees will be provided an acknowledgement certificate (PDF copy) of having completed the training course.

FAQs

Are training contents relevant to 'research commercialisation support staffs and institutions' outside of the UK?

Training materials have been prepared in the context of undertaking research commercialisation project support by staffs (esp. within the Research and Knowledge Exchange Support Offices) in the UK's Higher Education landscape. However, 99% of the course contents are applicable to non-UK working environment (apart from slight differences in the norms/rules of funding and governance mechanisms adopted for research commercialisation support).

How much does a potential trainee need to know Intellectual Properties (IPs) prior to attending this course?

As a minimum expectation on the IP basic knowledge, the researcher/student ought to have read the dictionary meaning of various IP types - Copyright, Design Rights (Registered/Unregistered), Trademark, Confidentiality, Trade Secret, Patent. However, there is an expectation that the potential trainee ought to possess a reasonable knowledge on how various IP types relate to research projects or innovative ideas.

Is 1-day sufficient to empower an aspiring IP Commercialisation Professional on all skillset aspect?

The Course content and training approach focus mainly on 'the bigger picture logic of why' and 'some readymade tips of using best practice approaches in IP Management/Exploitation' for adoption by a Research or Knowledge Exchange Support Staff upon 'an existing or upcoming research commercialisation project'. The training contents of this course can be considered as reasonably sufficient for an average-skilled staff currently in 'research and knowledge exchange support roles' to move into the role of providing IP Commercialisation support. Also, the course contents can be adopted by a junior-level IP Commercialisation Staff aiming to become an IP Commercialisation Professional/Expert. However, there is always some gap between learning and executing. The trainee is recommended to read through 'freely available' additional learning resources on IPs and IP exploitation for enhancing knowledge/skills.

Can Academics and Post Graduate (PG) Research Students also attend this course?

Yes, the course contents and training approach have been designed with an aim to enable easy understanding by a budding IP Commercialisation Professional, thereby the terminologies and wordings used are the ones written from an early career staff in technology transfer role. However, the course contents will be more relevant to Staffs in Research Support Office (RSO) or Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of various institutions, as they can directly consume the training contents without much effort due to prior working experience in providing research or knowledge exchange support.