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Community and Industry Partnerships
Introduction
The Partnerships Office is happy to talk to any researcher at any stage of research. We like to
identify research leading to technologies with commercial potential in the
earliest stages, when possible, in order to give the best services to researchers. Services we offer to researchers include:
- Intellectual property (IP) management
services, including:
- advice on copyright issues
- advice patents and patentability
- patent searches
- advice on confidentiality or non-disclosure
clauses
- material transfer agreements
- patenting
- commercialisation of research results
- lectures on IP tailored to specific classes
- evaluation of the commercial potential of
inventions and other innovation.
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Industry liaison services, including:
- negotiation of overhead rates on research
contracts
- facilitating interactions between groups of
researchers and specific sectors of the non-academic world
NRC IRAP Program
Copyright
The Partnerships Office can provide help with various
copyright issues. For example:
- Obtaining copyright
- Moral rights – should they be waived?
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Licensing copyright
- Copyright issue in research and other contracts
- Commercial exploitation of copyright works
Commercialization
Recognising the unique role of universities
as public institutions of higher learning with a mandate to produce
new knowledge, UNBC strives to produce benefits to society by
publicising research findings and, where appropriate, encouraging the
application of research results in tangible ways which may include commercial
activities. The Partnerships Office works with the creators of IP to determine the appropriate
path for commercialisation based on the IP and the abilities
and desires of the creator. Possibilities include sale or licensing of the
IP and building a company around the IP.
The Partnerships Office encourages the disposition of
intellectual property in ways which assure maximum benefit to the creators, to
the University and to society-at-large, without whose participation the
intellectual property (IP) could not have been generated.
UNBC's IP policy can be found here.
Patenting
If you feel your research has the potential
to lead to a commercially viable invention you are encouraged to contact
the Partnerships Office as early in the process as
practical. If you are a
faculty member, you are advised to read the relevant sections of the Faculty Agreement.
In addition the Partnerships Office will provide some advice for inventions made outside the university.
We can also help obtain copies of issued
patents and help with patent searches.
Contract Issues
The Partnerships Office works closely with other members
of the Office of Research and the Research Contract Coordinator in the review
of research contracts. The Partnerships Office is particularly concerned with clauses with respect
to intellectual property and its ownership; confidentiality and data
ownership/disposition and all industrial research contracts.
For all contract
research projects please consult with us before presenting a budget to
potential clients so that we can help ensure that the charges for indirect
costs (overheads) are appropriate.
Partner Organizations
BCIC (British
Columbia Innovation Council) develops entrepreneurial talent and commercializes
technology. BCIC focuses on competitively positioning British Columbia in
today's global knowledge economy in order to provide significant employment
opportunities and a high standard of living for British Columbians.
In today's economic
climate, it is increasingly important for British Columbia to be competitively
positioned in the global knowledge economy. BCIC is developing an ecosystem
that increases the number and success rate of technology startups in the
province to promote economic development and strengthen BC's contribution to
the Canadian high tech sector. BCIC does this by developing programs and
providing support for initiatives that develop entrepreneurs and promote the
commercialization of technology.
BCIC is a Crown
Agency of the Province of British Columbia.
BC Innovation Council
9th Floor 1188 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC, V6E 4A2
Phone: (604)
683-2724
Toll free: 1-800-665-7222
Fax: (604) 683-6567
E-mail: info@bcic.ca
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