This paper describes a small, unique set of project data that was assembled as part of a larger study on universities as research partners. Herein, we summarize, to the extent possible, our interpretation of what the project data Ž . reveal about barriers, intellectual property IP concerns in particular, inhibiting industry from partnering with universi-

The fastest growing Intellectual Property (IP) protection instrument in the world is trademark. In a pioneering way, this article sought, through exploratory descriptive research, to trace trademark landscape of universities world, with objective tracing size universe IP assets by addition identifying relationship these protected trademarks industry sectors which have approached intellectual pr...

Article history: Received 1 October 2013 Received in revised form 1 October 2014 Accepted 5 November 2014 Available online 4 February 2015 This paper investigates the effects of software intellectual property rights (IPRs) on the performance of software firms. For this, technical efficiency scores for Korean software firms are examined, and for an empirical analysis, data envelopment analysis (...

Intellectual property (IP) protection for bioinformatics databases plays a key role in accelerating development of biological sciences and biotechnological industry. This paper presents current and global position of IP protection in bioinformatics database. A protection method has been proposed after analysing characteristics of bioinformatics databases and considering different database prote...

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is grateful for the opportunity to provide comments on India’s Draft National IPR Strategy, hereafter referred to as "Draft Strategy". Moreover we applaud the Government of India (GOI) for taking on the difficult but important task of improving India’s intellectual property (IP) system to spur innovation. It is in the interest of BIO and its many me...

The paper describes findings from an interview study about intellectual property management practices in inter-organisational relationships. A total of 40 companies and public organisations in Finland and in the Netherlands were studied using semi-structured face-toface interviews. The organisations represented different sizes and fields of industry. About 90% of the interviewed companies colla...