The WIPO Guide to Trade Secrets and Innovation highlights the strategic value of trade secrets in driving innovation and protecting confidential information. It provides an overview of trade secret systems, management practices, and their role in modern economies, offering insights for businesses, policymakers, and researchers.
Explore ASTP's White Paper, endorsed by NAAC, “Catalysing Change: Exploring trends and strategies to enhance the spin-off process in Europe”. Learn strategies for innovation, knowledge transfer, and robust support systems to enhance research institutes' impact on competitiveness and development.
The 8th ASTP- EU Forum continues the dialogue between European knowledge transfer professionals and staff of the European Commission. At this free online event, participants have the opportunity to hear directly from senior Commission staff working on initiatives which directly impact the innovation landscape. This event is organised by ASTP's Europe Committee.
Technology breakthroughs and innovation are widely recognised as powerful engines of economic growth in developed economies. As a result, research carried out in universities has gained increasing attention as a lever to securing a nation’s competitiveness. However, transferring knowledge to the market often remains a challenge for universities, whose primary missions are related to education and academic research.
Explore the importance of mental health in the Knowledge Transfer sector and how KTOs can lead the way in creating a culture of wellness and support. Join our webinar Breaking the Silence: Mental Health in KT, to gain insights on promoting well-being in this field.
This report contains data of 674 KTOs from 21 European countries. It includes 97 aggregated KTO datasets from one National Association and 577 datasets from responding KTOs. The aggregated data was included in the summary overview and excluded from the detailed analysis in the remainder of the report to avoid biases.
In this Tea with ASTP, Cornelia Peuser presents the EPO Observatory’s new Deep Tech Finder, a tool that blends the business profiles of around 8,300 investment-ready European start-ups with information on their patent portfolios.
In this Tea with ASTP Clare Dillon, InnerSource Researcher at the University of Galway, covered where academic OSPOs are located within institutions, their goals and the activities OSPO staff engage in.
The 7th ASTP- EU Forum continues the dialogue between European knowledge/technology transfer professionals and staff of the European Commission. At this free online event, you shall have the opportunity to hear directly from senior Commission staff working on initiatives which directly impact the innovation landscape.
Overview of actions for the period 2022-2024
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.
The 6th ASTP- EU Forum continues the dialogue between European knowledge/technology transfer professionals and staff of the European Commission. At this free online event, the participants had the opportunity to hear directly from senior Commission staff working on initiatives which directly impact the innovation landscape: ERA Action 17, ResearchComp, and the EU "Patent Package". The Unit for Valorisation policies and IPR shared with us updates on the recently adopted policies and tools as well as the next developments in knowledge valorisation. The ERC presented the results of a new study revealing how frontier research spurs patented inventions. The EIC provided further insight on the Transition Open funding scheme and on the role of technology transfer to support funded projects. Finally, for the first time we hosted a representative of the unit in charge of innovation policy and access to finance who presented the New European Innovation Agenda.
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