Intellectual property: what do teachers and students know?

Starkey, Louise; Corbett, Susan; Bondy, Ann; Davidson, Susan Kay

doi:10.1007/s10798-009-9088-6

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“…It was found that the participants were unable to explain the relevant IP law and there was confusion among registered patents, designs, and copyrights. The study recommended teachers’ learning programs by applying pedagogical content knowledge of IP (Starkey et al , 2010).…”

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Assessment of awareness on IPR activities among Indian academics – a cross-sectional study

Ravi

Janodia

2022

JSTPM

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Purpose Protection of intellectual property (IP) is important to leverage its commercial potential. This study aims to examine and comprehend the level of understanding of intellectual property rights (IPR) among Indian academics. The study covers three main aspects – awareness level of IP among Indian academics, comprehending if the current state of knowledge about IP is useful for commercialization and whether the current knowledge of IP activities among Indian academics is sufficient to support their professional career and generate revenues from their inventions. Design/methodology/approach A structured methodology was contemplated and applied. A cross-sectional study with a convenience sampling method was adopted. The duration of the study was six months from March to August 2021. A total of 500 Indian academics were approached, of which 116 responded with a response rate of 23.4%. A structured questionnaire was administered to the participants to understand their level of knowledge about IP. Furthermore, the data analysis was performed based on descriptive analysis. Findings The study findings revealed that the awareness among the participants about IP was minimal. The underlying reasons could be academics did not focus on generating IP through novel research, awareness of basic knowledge about IP was considerably low and inadequate to support their professional career, primary focus was on which publications are considered as one of the important criteria for performance management, national policies do not encourage collaborative research between university and industry that may lead to potential IP generation and the Indian academic set-up expects multitasking by its faculty members. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is an original contribution, based on the study carried out by the authors to understand the awareness of IP activities among Indian academics.

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Assessment of awareness on IPR activities among Indian academics – a cross-sectional study

Ravi

Janodia

2022

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“…One such research, its results published in 2009, relied on the answers of the lecturers of technical disciplines and a few students to determine their knowledge in intellectual property. e second part of this study explored the practical skills in intellectual property rights protection [29].…”

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Qualification Enhancement in Intellectual Property for the Teaching Staff of Institutions of Higher Education

Luniachek

Kulakovskyi

Brovdii

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Education Research International

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The paper substantiates the need and importance of cultivation of a competence in intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in the teaching staff in higher education during their qualification enhancement (QE) as a condition for their further development and provision of quality higher education in Ukraine. The survey was conducted under the state-funded R&D topic to evaluate the attitude to intellectual property among the teaching staff of institutions of higher education (IHE). It looks into the factors and mechanisms of IPR protection and inclusion in the QE programmes for the IHE teaching staff. Knowledge in IPR protection encourages creation of a favourable environment for intellectual activity development, where an important role in its dissemination belongs to the teaching staff. The findings reveal that acquisition of such knowledge and skills is currently not commonly included in the corresponding QE programmes, while the number of those interested in them is significant. Another red flag in this regard is overbureaucratization of the process and the working overload of the teaching staff. Therefore, changes are in order in the QE programmes to include the relevant portion of knowledge and training in IPR, their exercise, protection, and commercialization.

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“…For example, patent files have been used as the learning materials in many engineering courses so that the students know how to protect their own ideas and legitimately use existing IP rules besides the way of innovation [2]. Indeed, the instructors need to have pedagogical content knowledge of IP rules if they are to incorporate them into their learning programs [12]. Offering the list of related patents to the students is not enough since the students are unable to gain the historical perspective on how designs have developed in this particular technical field.…”

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Cultivating Intellectual Property Education in the Electronics Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study in Integrated Circuit Design

Liu

2019

IEEE Access

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A survey on engineering students' attitude toward intellectual property (IP) education has been conducted in several China's universities, revealing the need for more effective teaching and learning methods. To improve the students' IP awareness and the capability of innovative learning, a small module of patent and circuit design case study has been included in an engineering course, namely, radio-frequency integrated circuit (IC) design, which is offered to senior undergraduate or postgraduate students in a top engineering university in China. Along with the instruction of the RFIC design techniques, the concepts of the IP for the ICs are presented, followed by the analysis of innovative circuits to explore potential legal issues. The feedback of the students suggests that the curriculum is considerably helpful to enrich the knowledge of engineering students in both the design technique and IP awareness.

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Intellectual property: what do teachers and students know?

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Assessment of awareness on IPR activities among Indian academics – a cross-sectional study

Assessment of awareness on IPR activities among Indian academics – a cross-sectional study

Qualification Enhancement in Intellectual Property for the Teaching Staff of Institutions of Higher Education

Cultivating Intellectual Property Education in the Electronics Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study in Integrated Circuit Design

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