Undergraduate Involvement in Intellectual Property Protection at Universities: Views from Technology Transfer Professionals*
Undergraduate Involvement in Intellectual Property Protection at Universities: Views from Technology Transfer Professionals*
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大学本科生参与知识产权保护：技术转让专业人士的观点*
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2014
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Chad M. Gotch
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Nathalie Duval;J. Pilcher;Elizabeth Hart;P. Weilerstein;Chad M. Gotch
通过参与产品设计和创业的课程和体验项目，本科生越来越多地参与到在校外具有商业可行性的产品和技术的开发中。本科生参与知识产权保护引发了一个有趣的问题，即如何最好地将学生的利益与机构政策和实践结合起来，因为大多数学生都不像教师和许多研究生那样受雇于大学。本文总结了一项调查的结果，该调查旨在研究大学生参与创造知识产权的水平和性质的趋势。它是对美国30所大学的技术转让办公室的知识产权专业人员进行管理的，这些大学的重点是工程、科学和技术。调查结果表明，在接受调查的院校中，超过一半的大学本科生越来越多地参与知识产权保护；各院校对如何管理大学生创造的知识产权缺乏共识；技术转让办公室必须将资源用于宣传政策，这对政策的实施方式至关重要。
Undergraduate students are increasingly engaged in developing products and technologies that are commercially viable outside ofthe university through their involvement in courses and experiential programs focused on product design and entrepreneurship. Theinvolvement of undergraduates in intellectual property protection leads to interesting questions related to how best to align studentinterests with institutional policies and practices since most are not employed by their universities in the way that faculty and manygraduate students are. This paper summarizes the results of a survey designed to examine trends in the level and nature ofundergraduate involvement in creating intellectual property. It was administered to intellectual property professionals in technologytransfer offices at 30 U.S. universities with strong emphases in engineering, science, and technology. Findings indicate thatinvolvement in intellectual property protection among undergraduates is growing at over half of the institutions surveyed; there is alack of consensus among institutions of how to manage IP generated by undergraduates; and that the resources technology transferoffices have to devote to communicating policy is critical to the manner in which policy is applied.