National Code of Practice for Managing Intellectual Property ... - Forfás

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For industry, this Code aims to:
4 Facilitate access to institutes, faculty and students that are aware of industrial needs and the processes through
which knowledge acquires value;
4 Provide an approach to obtaining access to IP that supports strategic business investment and the inclusion of IP
in product development;
4 Provide a starting point and clear principles and guidelines to manage the IP aspects of collaborative research
agreements;
4 Help to ensure speed, simplicity and consistency in negotiating collaborative research agreements with PROs.
For the research community, this Code offers:
4 Endorsement of the need to grow and sustain research and teaching capabilities that are internationally
competitive;
4 Greater recognition of the strengths and results provided by the community;
4 A starting point and clear principles and guidelines to manage the IP aspects of collaborative research
agreements;
4 Speed, simplicity and consistency in negotiating collaborative research agreements with industrial partners;
4 An approach to securing the access to research results necessary for teaching, research, publication and building
and sustaining research capabilities;
4 The opportunity to optimise benefits from commercial exploitation of research results and to attract further
support from industry.
The Code complements the objectives of the public sector research funding agencies to:
4 promote common IP management practice across funding agencies and all public grant recipients;
4 strengthen connections between academic and industrial research; and
4 raise the global profile of Irish research through notable advancement of knowledge, widely known international
collaborations, and broad use of IP generated in Ireland.