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Intellectual Property Office: Update
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Education tools
- New platform launched in July
- https://www.ipo.gov.uk/ip-support
- Light touch registration
- Better monitoring to understand use
- More easily updated
Intellectual Property Office: Update Nic Fearon-Low Education tools - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Intellectual Property Office: Update Nic Fearon-Low Education tools - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Intellectual Property Office: Update Nic Fearon-Low Education tools New platform launched in July https://www.ipo.gov.uk/ip-support Light touch registration Better monitoring to understand use More easily updated Updating
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Updating the tools
Lambert Toolkit – 2019 survey highlights: 39 respondents – (64% universities, 23 businesses) 18% 82%
Awareness
Raising awareness? Through professional organisations websites & newsletters
62% 38%
Use
no, 46% Yes, 54%
Additional guidance
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Updating the tools
Intellectual Asset Management for Universities Updating the guidance:
- Have you used the current guidance?
- What do you think we should include in
updated guidance?
- What format would you prefer to use?
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IP for Research workshops
- In the academic year 2018/19 the IPO has partnered with Vitae to deliver:
- 15 workshops across the UK,
- reaching 300 researchers;
- We received 48 expressions of interest in this year’s programme.
- Post-course evaluations to date indicate that the workshops have improved researchers’:
- Understanding of how IP was relevant to their research
- Knowledge of their institutions’ IP policies and who to speak to; and
- Confidence in identifying and managing their IP.
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Education Review
- Increase IP’s impact through awareness and education: 2018 commissioned a comprehensive
review of our education resources
- Evidence from the review suggests IP will become even more relevant for young people and for
the future workforce due to digitalisation, hyper-connectivity and AI, for example
- The review findings examined our resources in 6 key areas, salience, discovery, navigation,
use, engagement and social and economic impact
- Identified opportunities for us to make improvements and increase their social and economic
impact
- We are considering the findings of the education review and from this we will develop an IP