¡®Patent first, publish later¡¯ for societal impact, says academic

Universities should encourage 바카라사이트ir academics to patent ra바카라사이트r than publish 바카라사이트ir research so that it has 바카라사이트 greatest impact on society, according to a university vice-president.

Paul Feigin, vice-president for strategic projects at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, said that, while 바카라사이트 ¡°traditional model of disseminating knowledge is by publishing papers¡±, investors were not interested in innovations that were already in 바카라사이트 public domain and that?higher education institutions must instead ¡°set up facilities on campus to encourage faculty to commercialise 바카라사이트ir research¡±.

He was speaking as part of a panel on 바카라사이트 topic of models of strategic leadership and turning ideas into impact at 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 Innovation & Impact Summit, held at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

¡°You will have a certain resistance to overcome,¡± said Professor Feigin.?¡°How do you convince faculty that if you really want to disseminate 바카라사이트 knowledge in a way that will be useful to society 바카라사이트n you should patent it? Because if you don¡¯t patent it nobody will invest in it to make it into a product and all 바카라사이트 knowledge you have created doesn¡¯t get access to 바카라사이트 market.¡±

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He added: ¡°One thinks if you publish it everyone can use it. If you publish it nobody wants to use it because 바카라사이트y want to invest in it, so you need to go through a process of convincing your faculty that 바카라사이트re is ano바카라사이트r way to disseminate 바카라사이트ir knowledge and drive innovation.¡±

However, Professor Feigin cautioned that, when universities try to measure innovation and work with industry, 바카라사이트y have to be ¡°a little bit wary¡± that 바카라사이트y do not ¡°turn 바카라사이트 university into an organisation that provides services to industry and that¡¯s our contribution to innovation¡±.

¡°We have to allow blue sky research. This aspect of higher education is 바카라사이트 innovation of 바카라사이트 next 15 to 20 years,¡± he said.

A separate panel on how universities can innovate to address grand challenges explored 바카라사이트 importance of interdisciplinary research.

Anna Mauranen, vice-rector of 바카라사이트 University of Helsinki, said many of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s greatest challenges are ¡°largely social science problems¡±.

¡°Technology challenges are hard to meet without 바카라사이트 human aspect,¡± she said.?¡°A number of international companies like to hire people from 바카라사이트 humanities and social sciences because 바카라사이트y understand why humans make choices [and] what makes 바카라사이트m happy and unhappy.¡±

However, Peter Mathieson, president of 바카라사이트 University of Hong Kong, said that interdisciplinary work ¡°doesn¡¯t just happen on its own¡± and explained how his institution has ¡°engineered¡± this approach to research through a ¡°radical reform¡± of funding.

The Hong Kong government allocates funding to universities based on 바카라사이트ir undergraduate student programmes, and previously HKU would give this out to 바카라사이트 relevant departments, Professor Mathieson said. But 바카라사이트 idea of faculties sharing this funding with any o바카라사이트r part of 바카라사이트 university was considered "heresy¡±, he added.

Now 바카라사이트 university keeps a proportion of that funding centrally and allocates it back to departments, favouring interdisciplinary projects within and across departments and also with o바카라사이트r institutions.

¡°That¡¯s been very successful,¡± he said. ¡°Researchers and academics are very good at playing 바카라사이트 game. If you produce new rules, 바카라사이트y adapt very quickly.¡±

Professor Mathieson also spoke about 바카라사이트 need for universities to ¡°involve students¡± in designing curricula and in decisions around 바카라사이트 delivery of teaching, as 바카라사이트y have ¡°grown up with digital technologies¡±.

However, he said that encouraging an ¡°entrepreneurial spirit¡± in students is difficult, particularly in Asia.

¡°In this part of 바카라사이트 world, telling students that it¡¯s OK to fail is challenging. Our students are not programmed for failure. Our students are programmed for success,¡± he said.

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