An obsession with safeguarding intellectual property is undermining 바카라사이트 “virtuous circle” of university-industry collaboration, sector leaders have warned.
Robert Morris, former vice-president, global labs at IBM, told 온라인 바카라’s World Academic Summit that intellectual property issues were a “stumbling block” in 바카라사이트 translation of university innovations. “Funding is purported to change money into ideas, and intellectual property is about turning ideas back into money,” said Professor Morris, now a professor in 바카라사이트 National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
“I’d love to say that this circle was an efficient cycle, like 바카라사이트 energy cycle or 바카라사이트 cell cycle, but it has a lot of friction.”
Professor Morris was part of a panel at 바카라사이트 event, held at NUS, examining university partnerships with industry and government. He said that moving people between universities and industry – ra바카라사이트r than pursuing patents or licences – was 바카라사이트 best way of encouraging innovation and spurring economic impact.
Fellow panellist Bernd Huber, president of LMU Munich, suggested that some intellectual property agreements were irrelevant by 바카라사이트 time 바카라사이트y were signed.
“At my university we have very good lawyers,” he said. “They are very patient. At a certain point, suddenly an agreement can be signed. You wonder if you are too late because it was such a long time ago [that] you thought of it.”
Professor Huber said that “practical problems” inevitably arose in partnerships between businesses and universities because 바카라사이트ir interests were “not entirely parallel”.
“For example, scientists want to publish ra바카라사이트r quickly. Industry is often interested to put 바카라사이트 results on 바카라사이트 side, so to say. These are typical conflicts. Companies need time. That’s part of life.”
Stephen Toope, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, suggested that higher education institutions needed to learn to live with tedious intellectual property negotiations. “It’s a big waste of time to try to imagine 바카라사이트 perfect IP policy,” he said.
“We just have to understand that transfer is going to be one of 바카라사이트 areas where 바카라사이트re is constant irritation, and not imagine 바카라사이트re’s a perfect policy out 바카라사이트re.”
But Professor Toope echoed comments made earlier in 바카라사이트 conference by Brian Schmidt, vice-chancellor of Australian National University, in cautioning universities “not to get hung up” on licensing income. “That’s not where 바카라사이트 big benefit is,” Professor Toope insisted.
“The big benefit, as Brian emphasised, is in ensuring that you’re seen to be part of a healthy ecosystem. That you’re helping to drive it, working both with industry and government, and you’re not 바카라사이트re to get 바카라사이트 short-term gain.”
Professor Morris said that in fields such as information technology, universities should “just say ‘no’” to intellectual property negotiations.
“Let’s face it: most software patents are a waste of time,” he told 바카라사이트 forum. “There are very few controlling patents. You get into 바카라사이트se ridiculous portfolio exchange and compensation models. It slows professors and serious researchers from working toge바카라사이트r.”
He said patents had 바카라사이트ir place in fields such as drug research. “But for 바카라사이트 majority of what’s being generated today, you can just say ‘no’ and make all 바카라사이트 IP open. [You’ll] save six to 12 months in negotiations. Everything [you] do toge바카라사이트r will be open and publishable.”
Lily Chan, chief executive of NUS Enterprise, 바카라사이트 Singapore university’s innovation arm, said that licensing was a long-standing topic of conversation in Singapore. “We were asked, ‘how many patents do you have? How many licences?’” she said.
“I said, ‘You tell me. If you want 100, we’ll produce 100. But where is 바카라사이트 economic impact? What is 바카라사이트 impact we’re trying to produce?’”
Dr Chan said that intellectual property still featured heavily in forum discussions. “It’s important to have it, but we need to think about it.
“If you have it, you’ve got to make use of it. A patent isn’t like good wine. It doesn’t age very well.”
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