Intellectual Property and Innovation: PRO

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Intellectual Property and Innovation PRO
CONHenry EtzkowitzChair Innovation,
Creativity and EnterpriseBusiness
SchoolUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne
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KNOWLEDGE

• POLYVALENT
• Simultaneously theoretical/practical/
• Commercializable/
• Open
• Increasingly Produced in triple helix contexts

• UNIVALENT
• Sole Sourced
• Single purpose

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Balancing Incentivization and
Professionalization

• 1949 Swedish Law Professors Exemption
• Individual incentivization
• 1980 US Bayh-Dole Act Partial Professors
  Exemption/Encouraged universities to develop
  technology transfer capabilities
• Recent Scandinavian Laws Transfer of IP rights
  to University/Organizational capabilities?

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Co-evolution of University- Industry
Relations
University Knowledge Publication
Technology Transfer Office Intellectual
property Patent License
Liaison Office Consultation
Incubator Technology Entrepreneur Firm
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Competitive Advantage
UNIVERSITY flow through of students new
inventors CENTRE
INSTITUTE permanent staff depth of
expertise CONSULTING FIRM
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Bi-Evolution of University Missions

• Teaching Individuals and Organizations
• Research Individual and Group
• Economic and Social Development
• Companies and Region

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The Entrepreneurial University

• Not the Industrialized University
• Incorporates Ivory Tower and Humboldtian models
• Independence based on generating income
• University as source of spin-offs

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Brazilian Entrepreneurial University

• Entrepreneurial Education Throughout the
  university
• Student Firms Dial-A-Technology
• Student Incubators Hotel for Firms
• Mixed Incubator links to SMEs
• Seamless web Incubation linked to Teaching and
  Research

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European Entrepreneurial University

• Top Down Transition Third Mission
• Extension of Teaching Role
• Entrepreneurship Training Programs
• Collective Entrepreneurship

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University of the Future

• INCUBATION
• Incubators Integrated into Academic Units
• RESEARCH
• Hybrid centers comprising academic, industry and
  government researchers
• TEACHING
• Virtual classes including on-campus and
  off-campus participants

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The Innovating Region

• Self Renewing
• Ability to move from one technological paradigm
  to another
• Synthesis of new fields with economic and
  theoretical potential
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Sources of Innovation

• CLUSTER
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• TRIPLE HELIX
• NATIONAL SYSTEM