Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day, which sheds light on the role that intellectual property rights play in promoting innovation and creativity.
This year’s theme for World IP Day was “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future”.
>> More information on the World Intellectual Property Organization’s platform.
As every year, all KTOs of the LiEU Network offered IP awareness-raising events to researchers at their universities during the week of 26 April:
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- Training “Prior art search in patent databases” by Benoît Van Driessche (LiEU Network) – UNamur and ULB
- “VALOPOLY“, a game dedicated to discovering the different aspects of the valorisation of research results in a playful way – UNamur
- Lunch around IP – UNamur
- Webinar “Research and data sets: legal issues for access and reuse“, given by Benjamin Docquir, lawyer at Osborne Clarke – ULB
- Webinar “The Invention Declaration“, by Fabienne Debuigne and Matthieu Palate, advisors in invention declaration of the Research Administration (ADRE) – UCLouvain
- Webinar ” Presentation of the RSpace tool, electronic laboratory notebook, for the management of your research data ” – ULiège
- Training ” Towards innovation, Introduction to intellectual property ” – ULiège
- Intellectual Property Consultation Day – UMONS
In addition, UCLouvain has released a new video for the occasion: “The Invention Declaration, the first step towards valorising your research”!
Throughout the year, the LiEU Network will make available on its platform dedicated to intellectual property an interactive memo that will allow you to discover, in a clear, pedagogical and complete manner, everything you need to know about knowledge transfer and its process.
Finally, the scientific advisors, IP experts and lawyers of the LiEU Network are available to answer your questions on intellectual property and valorisation. Do not hesitate to contact them through your KTO! Do not hesitate to contact them through your KTO!
