Industry committee  There is nothing that other people cannot create. It is just that we did it first. If we wait then we lose, and if we don't wait we still lose if we hold it.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  For example, the university itself does not do the research in a shell. They already partner with a numbered company, which may be a military organization or it could be any of the others. They work in tandem with the university to find where the intellectual properties can be ha

Industry committee  Entrepreneurship.

Industry committee  Non-executable patents.

Industry committee  That should at least be opened up. I completely agree with you that it should be opened up.

Industry committee  We are progressing but other people are doing it much faster than us. It's not because we are going in reverse gear; we are also going forward. The thing we could do better is to not hold the intellectual property and ideas too close to our chest for a long period of time. In th

Industry committee  Well, it would definitely reduce the overhead for them. At the moment, overhead can shoot up to 30% or 40%. They are going through the same thing everywhere. Most of the people who are negotiating are not even subject matter experts, so a lot of time is being wasted. That would d

Industry committee  Yes, I agree with you. It should not be an imposition, because then there would be a retaliation. Insert a template or a guideline, things like that, definitely. There should be fields set out beforehand, so that they know what they are getting into.

Industry committee  Oh, okay. I did not know they did that.

Industry committee  Yes. There are only two funding options that are possible. One is the fully government-funded option, and the other has an SME involved. If an SME is involved, and the SME makes the decisions, then it becomes easy for them to say no. If it's government-funded, then there has to b

Industry committee  Let me think through this clearly. The person who created this particular intellectual property is the researcher, along with the SME. In general, researchers are either professors or students. Looking at the 80:20 rule, I can confidently say that university professors and resear

Industry committee  Good morning, all. Thank you for inviting me. I'm going to share my insights regarding the problems that SMEs face in obtaining IP from research institutions. I'm going to suggest two or three solutions because it's only a six-minute speech, and hopefully it's useful. The inte