Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre

Successful strategic management of IPR is a key skill for an aspiring entrepreneur. Trade Marks underpin brands that are the foundation for consumer loyalty. Patents provide opportunities to capitalise on innovation and invention. Designs protect aspects of products that have individual character, and appeal. Enterprise success is more likely where there is an awareness of what's involved in sound IPR management

Links:

Intellectual property for engineers: a curriculum development project - paper on project progress, presented at LILI 2006 : Using your imagination: illuminating legal education (8th Annual Conference of the Learning in Law Initiative) 5 January 2006, University of Warwick

Integrating a Key not but Core Concept into the Engineering Curriculum - Ruth Soetendorp, Jim Roach, Robert McLaughlan.  Paper for International Conference on Engineering Education, Puerto Rico, July 2006

Legal Knowledge: Learning, Communicating and Doing - Bill Childs, Robert G. McLaughlan, Ruth Soetendorp, Jim Roach. Paper for 2006 ALTA Conference, presented in the 'Intellectual Property' Interest Group.

Preparing engineers & scientists for the 21st century: a case for imbedding an inherent awareness of intellectual property in undergraduate engineering & science curricula : (Full text of paper presented at 2006 ALTA Conference.)

University of Newcastle upon Tyne - Enterprise Centre, Paul Freeman and Dr Emma Barron (202KB)

Law as an enterprise skill:'Intellectual property and project commercialisation in engineering enterprise' Prof. Jim Roach and Prof. Ruth Soetendorp presentation 2006

Increasing Enterprise through International Developments in IPR Education and Research - Anil Sinha, World Intellectual Property Organisation  

UKIPO Guide 'My Ideas - is it a business?'