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Reports : The Wellings Report on IP Management
The Wellings Report on IP management was published in November 2008
In March 2008, the Secretary of State for Innovation Universities and Skills, John Denham, invited the Vice Chancellor of Lancaster University, Paul Wellings to look at the issue of university intellectual property and research benefits. The question posed was "how universities should manage their IP for their own benefit and the wider economy". This work was one of a number of external contributions to a broader Higher Education Debate.
To read the report [click here] or download the report from the link below
Wellings makes a number of recommendations (synopsis taken from http://www.ginnn.com/blog/5277/paul_wellings_report_published.html)
They are:
- Government should make a clear statement that the primary purpose of research commercialisation is to benefit the economy as a whole, rather than create an income stream for universities
- DIUS should look for opportunities to create a “hub and spoke” model for university Technology Transfer Offices to enhance capability
- Universities should review their institutional governance arrangements for management of IP and research commercialisation
- Universities should make sure their own rules on student IP are not a barrier to student enterprise
- Universities should encourage staff to take part in commercialisation through incentives like making it part of promotion criteria
- “Roberts Funding” for training postgraduate students in transferable skills should be continued and expanded to include commercialisation skills, but Postgraduate funding should be concentrated to encourage graduate school environment with critical mass.
- HEFCE should require universities to produce an annual report on what it is doing to maximise economic and social impact as part of HEFCE’s normal “single conversation” annual monitoring process
Wellings Report