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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

This British Council has awarded to the IIPM Lab an India-UK partnership project that aims to design, develop, and pilot test a multidisciplinary teaching module for educating Indian graduate students on ‘Intellectual Property for Sustainability’. The project integrates learnings from the ongoing Belmont Forum and Norface funded, international and interdisciplinary research project "IPACST" (https://ip4sustainability.org/) and the domain expertise of partner institutes to teach new ways of thinking and responsibly dealing with IP for creating positive social and environmental impact rather than just economic growth.

 

Impact and major beneficiaries

The project will strengthen the India-UK relationship with emphasizes on educating and imparting knowledge related to managing IP for sustainability to students (future technocrats entrepreneurs, business managers, and policymakers) before entering the workforce rather than later. The project will create learning and employability opportunities for Indian students, build and strengthen the long-term IP workforce, and capability to facilitate sustainable development.

This project is funded by the British Council under its Going Global Partnerships Grant programme aimed at “India-UK partnerships for the co-creation of joint programmes of study”.

 

Project team

Dr Frank Tietze and Dr Pratheeba Vimalnath, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prof Anjula Gurtoo and Dr Akriti Jain, Indian Institute of Science, India

Dr Uma Urs, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Dr Revendranath Tirumalsety, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

News & Blog articles

Upcoming World IP Day 2024

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This year's World IP Day is dedicated to the topic of " IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity ". Those that have followed our research will know that this is an important topic for our group. We are thus delighted that two colleagues and friends, Dr Pratheeba Vimalnath (now Lecturer in...

Visit to Chalmers University of Technology

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Talk by Prof. Caroline Ncube at King's College

22 March 2024

Within the context of our GOCIA project (Governing Climate Innovation from Africa), it was an honour to host Prof. Caroline Ncube at King's College, Cambridge for a talk on "African perspectives on governing Science, Technology and Innovation to advance the SDGs" during which she introduced her new book, the " Elgar...