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New Professionals Forum Meeting #3
The third meeting of the New Professional SIG hears from Dr Salma Ishaq from King's College London to discuss: "What is the purpose of tech transfer/knowledge exchange?"
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Tea with ASTP: Streamlining legal documents industry/academia
How can industry and academic institutions most efficiently collaborate? What solutions can be created to help both parties avoid the perennial pain point of the cumbersome legal documents process? Two US-based specialists discussed the best methods for streamlining legal documents in industry/academia partnerships.
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BOSS - Business opportunity self -assessment tool
The self-assessment tool developed by the BOSS project anticipates all those issues that a student, researcher or entrepreneur will face while transforming an idea to a business opportunity.
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Results of the EUA survey on universities and innovation
Innovation ecosystems for a sustainable Europe: How to enhance the contribution of universities
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Towards a reform of the research assessment system
From March to November 2021, the European Commission consulted European and international stakeholders on how to facilitate and speed up reform so that the quality, performance and impact of research and researchers are assessed on the basis of more appropriate criteria and processes.
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Grants and Collaborations-contributions from third parties
Hosted by ZonMw, this page provides guidance on how to set these agreements out properly and what to look out for. This information is intended as an aid in establishing (collaboration) agreements; no rights can be derived from this.
Training Materials
Present and Future of Software Licensing
Recording of the online workshop organised by the Digital Innovations SIG on 29 April 2021 | The Present and Future of Software Licensing - Mirko Lukacs of Utrecht Holdings
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Study highlights economic benefits of owning IP rights
Released by the EPO and the EUIPO, this study shows that companies which own at least one patent, registered design or trade mark generate on average 20% higher revenues per employee than companies which do not own any of those intellectual property rights (IPRs).
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World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020
The World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020 report covers 2019 data, predating the human and economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. What this year’s WIPI documents, however, is a strong foundation of IP activity that will serve as a base for new advancements as the pandemic subsides.
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EPO: Valorisation of Scientific Results 2020
Valorisation of scientific results Patent commercialisation scoreboard: European universities and PROs”, finds that licensing is by far the preferred channel of commercialisation (accounting for 70% of the commercialisation of inventions), followed by R&D co-operation (14%) and the sale of patents (9%).
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Tea with ASTP: Negotiating Licensing Terms
In this webinar recording, Anja Zimmerman, discusses how knowledge and technology transfer can happen in numerous ways, from publication of research results to collaborations between scientist, between research organisations, between academia and industry or by creating companies.
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Tea with ASTP: Technology Marketing
Sometimes universities and research organisations fail to turn research results into marketable products or services, not because of lack of scientific excellence or technical innovativeness but, because of non-technological barriers such as economic, environmental, social, regulatory, or legal obstacles.