Are you a specialist in the field of intellectual property and do you want to use your knowledge and experience for the greenest university in the Netherlands? Are you ready for a new challenge and will you help our team and the rest of the organization in the field of IP? Then read on!
About the job:
Wageningen University & Research are in search of an experienced IP professional to ensure the strategic management of the growing IP portfolio. As an IP Manager, you operate within the context of IP procedures and scientific interests. You are capable of evaluating the patentability, value, and marketability of new inventions. You play a crucial role in providing contractual and strategic IP advice to sciences groups. The primary focus is to always guide the valorisation of an invention in the right direction. In some cases, you may only provide guidance, while in others, you independently handle the entire process from A to Z.
You enjoy providing researchers with information on intellectual property rights, raising awareness of their value, and assisting them in making business agreements with third parties. You serve as a conversational partner for all levels within and outside the organisation: from researchers to deans and from recent alumni to industry representatives. Additionally, you collaborate with Knowledge Transfer Managers in setting up and guiding the transfer of IP. Above all, you can contextualise your actions, seamlessly switch between the diverse positions of the involved parties, effectively advance a case to the next phase, effortlessly navigate between science and business, and achieve valorisation results.
Your role involves guiding the establishment, management, and commercialisation of patent rights, and offering advice, information, and business development support related to licenses, contracts, software, and trademark/design registration.
Your responsibilities:
- Liaising with researchers to start the process of evaluating promising technologies;
- Being the primary point of contact between WUR and patent attorney firms;
- Defining and implementing bespoke IP strategies for individual technologies;
- Advising on patent filing and prosecution in collaboration with patent attorney firms;
- Supporting commercialisation efforts;
- Managing WUR's IP portfolio;
- Collaborating with WUR's Legal department in reviewing and preparing IP-related agreements;
- Training researchers in IP matters;
- Improving internal policies and processes;
Learn more about the vacancy and apply here.