Overview
Academics and PGR (Post Graduate Research) Students often struggle to comprehend how the term ‘IP (Intellectual Property)’ relates to them and their research projects, due to the lack of training courses wherein contents on IP can be emphasised on ‘using the knowledge on IP rights’ by the attendees to aid their ongoing research projects rather than ‘becoming an IP expert / IP Lawyer’.
This course intends to demystify the basics of IP from a researcher’s view of planning and delivering a research project (which is of ‘either a grant or commercialisation’ nature). As a researcher, the usual concerns in undertaking a research project include ‘knowing background and arising IPs’, ‘filling up IP management and IP exploitation aspects inside a grant application’, ‘agreeing terms on IP management and IP exploitation arrangement among partners’, and ‘planning technology development aligned to market needs while exploring prior arts’.
What You’ll Learn From This Course
- Why awareness on IP Commercialisation skills is crucial to Researchers – Basics
- How to plan and maximise Research Impact out of research projects – Intermediate
- Hands-on techniques on prior arts search, customer/market identification, and Licensing/Spinout basics – Advanced
Certification
All attendees will be provided an acknowledgement certificate (PDF copy) of having completed the training course.
Duration
1 day [9:00-11:30, 12:00-14:30, 15:00-17:30]
Curriculum
- 3 Sections
- 18 Lessons
- 1 Days
- IP commercialisation’s relevance to academics & PGR students – Basics6
- 1.1What is IP and various IP rights – formats, legality, confidentiality, Knowhow/trade-secret?
- 1.2Cost and benefits of IP protection options – timeline and IP protection planning
- 1.3IP policy and scholarly works – institutional norm on visitors, students, academics, staffs
- 1.4IP aspect on KE activities – consultancy, CPD, Collaborative and Contract Research, KTP
- 1.5IP aspect on various Research Domains – Social Science, Physical Science, Life Sciences
- 1.6Work-package-breakdown – Ownerships/rights of parties on background/foreground IPs
- Using IP commercialisation for Research Impact planning – Intermediate6
- 2.1Interpreting Research Impact – REF view, KE view, Industry view
- 2.2IP Management approaches – T&Cs of grant funding and collaboration agreement
- 2.3Pathways beyond IP Management – Writing IP Exploitation routes inside grant application
- 2.4Research output dissemination – recording outreach and impact of research outputs
- 2.5Avoiding IP leakage – Hiring students/consultants, procuring external services/supports
- 2.6Maintaining Confidentiality – Seminars/papers, company engagement, files record
- Achieving IP exploitation outcomes on Research projects – Advanced6
- 3.1Interpreting IP exploitation – Different views of university, project members, industry
- 3.2IP exploitation’s relevance to REF/KEF – Licensing and spinout outcomes
- 3.3Knowing pre-existing research works – Prior Art Search, market landscape
- 3.4Identifying target End-users – Customer Value Analysis, market ecosystem
- 3.5Understanding end-user/consumer adoption – spinout business case building
- 3.6Converting partner company as licensee – option agreement, follow-on-funding
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