intellectual property management to support innovation systems: setting the site at the global level...
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Intellectual Property Management to Support Innovation Systems: Setting the Site at the Global Level
Dr. Victoria Henson-ApollonioIP Consultant & Special Graduate Faculty, University of Guelph
Open Access Week, University of GuelphOctober 21-26, 2012
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Software
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Methods
GermplasmTraining Materials
Research Tools
Data
Farming Practices
Publications©
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• Access and USE• Attribution, reputation• End-use• End-users• Developers• Participatory practices and co-development• Meeting needs of the poor• Tools to know what we have
Why does this matter?
Examples of Issues?• Germplasm
– Distribution of public and private materials under SMTA for Annex 1, non-Annex 1
– Exclusivity; Humanitarian use clauses• Confidentiality of information/knowledge
provided by others– Building confidence to deal with this?– Prior informed consent (PIC)
• Confidentiality of information/knowledge generated in project– Publication of results– Exclusivity; Humanitarian use
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•Center seminars•NPI•Annual Meeting•Skills-building Workshop•Web-based products
•Center visits•Transactional work•System Dynamics Modeling•Case studies•Stewardship papers
•License Central•MoU template •IP Health Check
•Blog•Branding, •Marketing
CAS@Cambridge
• 2nd Yr Law students or LLM students chosen by UofCambridge
• Centers would indicate a need for some additional legal personnel
• Internship establishedExposure of Law students to IP issues in
Agriculture and the notion of Public Goods
National Partners Initiative (NPI); An International Society of IP Practitioners
Centers and National Partners
Skills Building Workshops
Annual Mtgs. Case StudiesSharePoint
materialsCompendium
Centers and National Partners
Skills Building Workshops
Annual Mtgs. Case StudiesSharePoint
materialsCompendium
Methodology for Establishing
• Funding –Proposal development and submission
• Identification of Participants• Identification of Networks that already exist• Dedicated staff (full-time and part-time)
Methodology for Capacity Strengthening
• Network or Community-of-Practice (CoP)?• Annual Meeting
– Annual workplan development and reporting• ‘Open Space’ Facilitation technique
• Reflection/Review of TT experiences from each office– Competitive grants scheme
Methodology for Capacity Strengthening
• Annual ‘workplans’ that incorporated ways in which members would contribute to a ‘knowledge’ base and also would benefit from support from the CoP
• Skills-building workshops– Proposal writing– Communications and Facilitation– Presentation– Negotiations
Results from the Project
• Participatory CoP• 40 participants over a 3-year period• Participants all practitioners
Results from the Project
• 3 Annual Meetings• 3 Workshops• 15 case studies• Database of templates, tools• Publication of a compendium covering IP
practices in several developing countries • Informal Community stills exists after funding
ceased in 2010
Lessons for UoG?• Establishing a Community-of-Practice is an effective
mechanism for increasing the interest and skill in this area– Could be based on subject areas (e.g. plant breeders), cross-
disciplinary (e.g. access to data, results, publications)– Could be based on similar Departments in several universities
• Prize/competition for most broadly used innovations (‘Yukon Gold’ potato) or ‘Best Practices’ (‘Open Access’ series)
• University-wide discussion re: the writing of a University-wide IP/TT Policy Statement
• Involvement of the seed sector. Governmental agencies, universities --in a Seminar series, etc.