tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post8489426632610796485..comments2024-03-29T13:59:42.629+00:00Comments on The IPKat: IP: When innovation is the answer to a spiritual funkVerónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-21111839309109779002015-09-18T23:26:40.090+01:002015-09-18T23:26:40.090+01:00Is there a field of human activity which is not be...Is there a field of human activity which is not being measured and put into statistics in these days of big data?<br /><br />However, statistics is not easy:<br /><br />http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2015/09/video-sir-david-hendry-on-big-data-and-econometrics.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-82245389531284495752015-09-18T15:57:30.930+01:002015-09-18T15:57:30.930+01:00I found this article fascinating. It is something ...I found this article fascinating. It is something I have been thinking about for a long time.<br /> <br />Firstly I am a practitioner; I have worked in tech transfer and am now combining that with an academic role. You are right in that many academics are moving into innovation and entrepreneurship centres (probably because there is more funding) but this will be very difficult for academics that are pure academics and who have never practiced or indeed run a business…... I find it a bit odd that people can teach law when they have never had to apply it in the day job or can run an entrepreneurship programme when they have only been employees but that is another discussion.<br /> <br />Unfortunately the current IP systems are not fit for purpose and have not kept up with current business practices but it does not mean that IP is not important. What is needed is getting the entrepreneurs and business community to understand that IP is not necessarily registrable IP but to establish what is the USP of their business (whether registrable or not) and that good documentation, the use of trade secrets and good contracts and collaborations can be as useful as any patent applications. It is having a good understanding of where your idea sits in the landscape and having good skills to explain how this can be marketed that will help entrepreneurs and innovation. If you do a deal at the right price where everyone can make a buck, then I find that all goes pretty well in a licensing deal and then it is all about building trust and relationships. Of course an overhaul of the IP systems would be useful but I may have retired by then. A proposal I would have in the academic world is that if you can show that the nub of an idea and collaboration resulted in a product and there is a clear chain of involvement, then money should go back to the initial researchers so they can do more good work.<br /> <br />So in short, getting the punters to understand that IP is the oi, that greases the wheels of a business is what I think needs to be done. It may not always be visible but if it is not there then all seizes up……Kalamazoonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-72885659041019380182015-09-18T14:36:26.147+01:002015-09-18T14:36:26.147+01:00Neil, I wonder whether this trend (and I have seen...Neil, I wonder whether this trend (and I have seen something similar outside the Academy) reflects a greater awareness of IP in society at large. But that awareness is not the awareness of an IP law specialist. For many, the distinction between creativity and the set of laws that protects that creativity is not a particularly interesting one, if they are even aware of it. For example, much of the current UK government's "IP policy" is really innovation policy, and is none the worse for that.<br /><br />Even within the community of lawyers, perceptions of IP may be changing as the subject becomes less of a specialist mystery and more of a mainstream subject. City law firms that created IP departments a generation ago are in some cases now closing them down and merging them into commercial transactions and commercial litigation practice groups.<br /><br />These changing perceptions of IP may be having an influence, even within the hallowed portals of law faculties. Markhttp://www.ipdraughts.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-23651801366543299792015-09-18T14:31:08.265+01:002015-09-18T14:31:08.265+01:00That's right. Never let social justification p...That's right. Never let social justification pollute legal rigour.<br />Meldrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09841440718012449720noreply@blogger.com