FREE 1 day course, Friday 17 May, 09:00 – 17:00, Southampton Science Park
After a successful course in January, we are pleased to be offering another opportunity for academics across the University to join a FREE one-day programme on Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) to Create Health Impact.
The course is open to everyone involved in medical and healthcare research and the last course attracted a range of colleagues from different faculties.
While it may feel altruistic to publish your research, early publication and failure to protect research can actually lead to an adverse impact on patients and health innovation.
Join the course to hear from legal and IP experts, as well as colleagues who have experienced the IP process and can share the impact on their research and patient care.
You will:
- Learn to recognise when you and your team are creating IP;
- Discover the implications for you and your organisation;
- Develop awareness of how to commercialise your innovation;
- Gain an introduction to the requirements, challenges and opportunities of IP;
- Understand the correct process to manage IP;
- Recognise the pitfalls to be avoided.
Dr Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy, Associate Professor in Clinical Experimental Sciences, was a delegate on the January course. He said: “IP is important to protect your work. We are in a competitive profession and IP prevents someone else taking your novel discovery and using it in a way that could have significant implications for the impact of your research.”
While Professor Sandy Jack, Professor of Prehabilitation Medicine and Honorary Consultant Clinician Scientist, added: “By applying for IP, we are ensuring no one else can take our intervention and use it in their own way, making it potentially less effective and unsafe. It doesn’t stop you publishing papers, you just have to be more careful about what you say. As a clinical academic, this can sometimes feel conflicting but in the long run your research is protected ensuring patients receive the best possible care.
“IP is protecting our novel prehabilitation intervention meaning we can roll it out over the next three years to all patients with cancer and all patients undergoing major surgery.”
Dr Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy and Professor Sandy Jack
Professor Tom Wilkinson, Associate Dean Enterprise, Medicine, said: “Everyone involved in medical and healthcare research needs a real working knowledge of IP and how to harness it to deliver real impact for patients, health systems and themselves. This course seeks to inform and support that understanding and builds on our excellent feedback from earlier this year.”
A £10 deposit will be charged at booking, refundable when attending on the day.
Find out more or book a place.