IP protection from universities for students, professors, scientists and researchers - incentive entrepreneurship

Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Study or IDP

📌 Key facts

• Mission: Identify best practices from the US and Germany to protect IP. As it matters how easily students, researchers, and professors can use IP created in the university context, the topic is also about incentive entrepreneurship. • When: Start anytime. Applications are open! • How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV and a grade report and a tentative research idea (research question, data, and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)

Contents

• 💡 Background
• 🦾Who We Are
• 🎯 Goals
• 🧠 Topics of Interest
• 🎓 Profile
• 📚 Further Reading
• 📄 Requirements to any Work
• 📬 How to Apply

💡 Background

From the refrigerator all the way to the diesel engine: Many world-famous inventions that we take for granted today originated from university research. An important basis for this is the protection of intellectual property. What are the current practices that ensure universities continue to produce outstanding inventions? What could be improvements to the status quo? These are exactly the questions you should address in your thesis. In detail, you should analyze the best practices in the USA and Germany regarding the protection of IP. How do the different incentive structures affect innovation at universities?

🦾Who We Are

The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.

🎯 Goals

• Research the IP-conditions of various universities in the US and Germany
• Create an overview over the different approaches together with the corresponding universities
• Determine best practices - Which conditions lead to the best results?
• Evaluate how easily the IP gained can be translated into practice
• You might develop and evaluate new IP structures
• Visualize your results

🧠 Topics of Interest

• Incentive Entrepreneurship / incentives of ownership structures
• Entrepreneurial activities and innovations
• Organization of academic institutions
• Looking at the big picture

🎓 Profile

• Reliable and self-driven
• Enthusiasm for incentive entrepreneurship / IP / implementation of ideas
• Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
• Passionate to learn more about the future and do research with impact

📚 Further Reading

How to protect algorithms as intellectual property

Ogilvy is in the midst of a project that converges robotic process automation and Microsoft Vision AI to solve a unique business problem for the advertising, marketing and PR firm. Yuri Aguiar is already thinking about how he will protect the resulting algorithms and processes from theft.

www.csoonline.com

AI, data protection and data ownership

New technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) or Deep Learning pose challenges for the law for example in regulatory or civil matters. Two areas where these challenges will have to be met by artificial intelligence companies and artificial intelligence in business are data protection in the regulatory field and data ownership in civil law.

iot.taylorwessing.com

Can You Patent an Algorithm? | Goldstein Patent Law

Have you developed a new software code and are wondering if you can patent an algorithm? This is a common question with developers, as they often want to know if their algorithm can be protected under intellectual property law. Unfortunately, Algorithms on their own cannot be patented because they are considered an "abstract idea."

goldsteinpatentlaw.com

Are Machine Learning Algorithms Patentable?

In all industries, Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be the most significant technological advancement in decades. The machine learning (ML) sector has exploded, helping companies with everything from increasing ad conversion rates to better detecting breast cancer. By 2022, the global machine learning market is anticipated to reach $8.8B.

arapackelaw.com

Software patent - Wikipedia

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary rights granted by a state to a patent holder for a limited period of time, usually 20 years.

en.wikipedia.org

Rally

We Put The Power in The Hands of Creators and Their Communities. Rally offers anyone with an online community the ability to launch their own coin without the complexity of coding on the ethereum blockchain. Rally is a decentralized platform completely governed by the community.

rally.io

Patents a hindrance to getting ideas to market?

Imagine a contact lens that monitors a diabetic's glucose levels through a person's tears. Though not on the market yet, it is the patented wearable technology designed by Waterloo, Ont.-based Medella Health.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Intellectual property | Research

University of Waterloo has long been known for researchers who are entrepreneurial thinkers and industry partners. At the core of entrepreneurship is Intellectual Property (IP) Rights Policy #73, also called "creator-owned," which grants ownership to the inventor.

uwaterloo.ca

Canada needs a national overhaul of university IP policies | University Affairs

We advocate for a harmonized intellectual property policy based on the creator-owned model. In today's global knowledge economy, Canada needs to foster policies that encourage ambitious science research and the commercial translation of resulting inventions into innovation. The recently completed review of Canada's science funding framework, commissioned by federal Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan, can be considered a wake-up call.

www.universityaffairs.ca

How and Why Startups Must Protect Their Intellectual Property at All Costs

Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Intellectual property (IP) is a term used to describe the creations of the intellect.

www.entrepreneur.com

About IP

Identifying and creating IP and bringing research results to the next stage of development have become institutional objectives in many universities and PRIs. In this context, an institutional IP policy is a prerequisite for successful collaboration between academia and commercialization partners.

www.wipo.int

9 Incredibly Successful Startups That Were Born At Stanford

Thanks in part to its proximity to nearly every major tech company you could think of, Stanford University has become a sort of incubator for Silicon Valley itself. Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger met through the Stanford alumni network.

www.businessinsider.com

📄 Requirements to any Work

We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:

• Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
• Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
• Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
• 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
• optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand

📬 How to Apply

If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)

We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!

👉 welpe@tum.de