Date: 9th April, 2025
Venue: Daystar University, Kenya
Weak intellectual property regimes undermine knowledge and technology transfer between universities and research institutes with other stakeholders, particularly the private sector. To address this, most universities and public research institutes have established institutional intellectual property (IP) policies; created technology transfer offices (TTOs), intellectual property management offices (IPMOs) and commercialization divisions to facilitate knowledge and technology exchange. While the IP policies exist in some universities and research institutes (and non-existent in others), the TTOs and IPMOs are mostly under-resourced and under-staffed. The levels of IP awareness and support to researchers are equally weak in most of our universities. As part of its approach to promoting public – private partnerships (PPPs) for research and innovation, the Scinnovent Centre has teamed up with the Directorate of Research, Innovation, Commercialization and Enterprise (DRICE) of Daystar University to offer this sensitization seminar to the staff and students.
The seminar will be titled “Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Commercialization.” The focus of the seminar centres primarily on enhancing the awareness and capacity of Daystar staff and students on the role of IP in their academic and professional undertakings; the relevance of their creativity and intellectual pursuits to socio-economic development and introduce them to aspects of technology transfer; knowledge exchange and commercialization pathways.
This hybrid sensitization seminar is designed for faculty and students to deepen their understanding of Intellectual Property (IP), its role in research and innovation, and pathways to commercialization. Whether you are developing new ideas, conducting research, or preparing to take innovations to market, this seminar is for you.
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All participants are kindly requested to register in advance.
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/8wK9ZPWQzE
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