The Digital Innovations SIG webinar explores software compliance with open-source licensing, focusing on ensuring ownership and avoiding third-party rights conflicts. Discussions include the use, development, and implementation of software repositories, their challenges, and benefits for licensing and commercial opportunities. Participants share insights and best practices for effective repository management.
In this webinar Sjaak Brinkkemper presents his vision on entrepreneurship in ecosystems: starting a software company is relatively easy, but continuing the enterprise in a solid and sustainable manner is extremely difficult. He investigates decision making on software production: product roadmapping, product/service duality, customer involvement, productisation, and internationalisation. He also pays attention to the role of the Knowledge Transfer Office in the ecosystem in a very early stage.
Brechtje Vreenegoor is manager of the KTO Wageningen University and Research. She discussed ‘servitisation’ of open-source models. Numerous models are being valorised in different ways, but it is difficult to advise researchers on what they should do. Why does something work one time and not another? And do we even know what works: how do we determine success?
In this Tea with ASTP, Relika Williams and Christophe Haunold were joined by other guests to share their experiences around creating, approving and executing IP management policy for universities. Three different perspectives: from a drafting point of view, an approval / feedback collection, and execution of a long standing policy. Why do we need it? What are the ingredients of a good policy? How to implement, approve and promote it?
A few years ago, the Max Planck Society introduced a partially standardised licensing model for spin-offs. The model includes a 10% stake of Max Planck in the companies and, in some cases, milestone payments or royalties. The model has proved to be successful in most cases. Only in the start-up projects, which are solely based on software code the model was sometimes considered unfair by the founders. The Max Planck Society has since then revised the model for these special technologies again.
With Laura Spinardi, Head of Technology Transfer Office, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, we discussed the challenges of managing data in digital clinical research: not just the privacy/personal data issues, but also data management and data sharing within collaborative research projects, using data for machine learning and training, and the ease or difficulty of transferring data in licensing and spin out opportunities.
In this session Carlo Duprel, Head of Technology Transfer Office at SnT, University of Luxembourg, provided an overview on how to setup and execute an impactful strategy of long-term collaborative research projects with companies, across different industries while ensuring scientific excellence. Sharing costs, IP access, benefits for researchers and companies – what makes the SnT Partnership Programme so interesting for different actors?
The ResearchComp tool is designed to help researchers assess and develop their transversal skills. Besides, it supports HEIs and training providers to adapt their training offer to researchers and employers to be aware of the wide set of competencies that are more and more requested from researchers.
University College Dublin has racked up a number of firsts, including creating Ireland’s first spinout unicorn, Wayflyer. Tom Flanagan, director of enterprise and commercialisation at the university’s innovation office NovaUCD gives us the insider view on how the ecommerce company was born.
The association's EDI SIG met during the 2023 Annual Conference in Tallinn, Estonia to discuss how women are the changing face of innovation.
Session on ‘Intellectual Property and Protection/Licensing thereof in Technology Transfer’ from Denise Mayfield (Dykema) who discusses patenting challenges, strategies and the importance of well structured Invention Disclosure Forms.
Freddy Guemeni is Head of IP services, University of Manchester Innovation Factory. Freddy has more than 10 years experience in intellectual property management, helping to drive progress and innovation in research. His broad experience includes roles at the National Institute for Health Research and Imperial Innovations. He is also a guest lecturer at multiple universities, including Imperial College London.
Join our newsletter and get the latest news