Throughout my journeys of looking for knowledge....i met with fantastic lecturers and teachers.....in formal & informal condition....sometimes we learn from somebody higher than us....sometimes we learn from lower staff or even just ordinary person...with that, i shall thanks everybody that shape myself today & i'll continue learning every day.... ;-)
Last week i'm attend one crash course in SIRIM.....hihihi....a 3 days workshop actually....derive from a semester Master courses.....about how we can bring any possibilities of marketable products/ services and attract investment.....on wht is IP all about, patented issues, IP licensing, collaborators, publications, students, employee, employer, researcher, lecturer...etc...hihi ~ long list... most of us are officers from MOSTI....they are lawyers, science communicator, research officers, engineers, science officers, designers, management personnel and from different branch and agencies....
Publications in the International Conference is important for predicting future trends....but the publication or research should be objectively done ~ to get the right products needed. Research should also focusing on fundamental research as a basic tools to nurture greater discoveries.....where the knowledge gained can be accomplished by other Research Institute, Technical Institutional, Designers, Creative Institute or Creative Universities etc. .....the challenges is how to apply an effective knowledge sharing system that could benefit everybody.... ;-p
Some interesting point from the courses to share:
1. Academic staff have a duty to research (part of employment contract), but do they have the duty to invent?
2. A duty to invent would be expected to carry with it an obligation of secrecy. ie.; an obligation to maintain and not put novelty at risk, so as to preserve patentability
3. But academic staff have choices; to publish freely and therefore destroy novelty or not to publish
4. Students are not employees; IP jointly owned by the students and University
5. Company Director; if the Director is an employee of a company, then as a result of employment relationship, the IP would be owned by the company. The same goes to employee situation. Unless the IP was created out side the course of employment, then its belong to the employee....
**Anyway, everybody hv their own interpretation and can freely argue all the statement above......even the speaker is quite open with any disagreement to be discuss... :-)
Points to ponder : Most of big companies will hire runners all over conferences to get information needed or benefited the company. It is simply because innovation give new business opportunity to them. Because of that, some may choose not to reveal the full accurate info in the publication, because people may copy them easily.....then, how Ethics in Education represent in this situation? Beside the plagiarism issues, how about the accuracy? It is quite blurry to explain, because normally new findings have less expertise to argue.....except over the controversy on recent paper published by Seralini on GM Maize; where scientist around the world urging the French scientist to release the full research data in which he linked consumption of NK603 maize increased incidence of tumors in rats (resources: The Petri Dish, November 2012 issues).
This 3 days courses give some frameworks and models that so far workable for industries and research institutes in UK, US, Australia etc. to collaborate....there is no definite answer that the models can suite here in our country or will still reliable in the next 10 years....but at least it one of the best method so far....
It is quite interesting to know how far and how many steps we should do to facilitate the penetration of research findings into real market....the workshop is a good efforts that MOSTI shall continue....this kind of workshop should be handle annually and broad the scope to other agencies related......maybe next time we should focus on every agencies problems related to engagement of research findings and commercialization challenges.....and see how we could go forwards with the best collaboration/ venture/ capital investment that suite every cases.....i believe everybody will be happy to contribute without hiding any information related.....because everybody get their portion (royalty, dividend, share etc.) and fair agreement to agree :-D
p/s : This is just my own opinion. Please do refer to other sources and references for further clarification...
Some interesting point from the courses to share:
1. Academic staff have a duty to research (part of employment contract), but do they have the duty to invent?
2. A duty to invent would be expected to carry with it an obligation of secrecy. ie.; an obligation to maintain and not put novelty at risk, so as to preserve patentability
3. But academic staff have choices; to publish freely and therefore destroy novelty or not to publish
4. Students are not employees; IP jointly owned by the students and University
5. Company Director; if the Director is an employee of a company, then as a result of employment relationship, the IP would be owned by the company. The same goes to employee situation. Unless the IP was created out side the course of employment, then its belong to the employee....
**Anyway, everybody hv their own interpretation and can freely argue all the statement above......even the speaker is quite open with any disagreement to be discuss... :-)
Points to ponder : Most of big companies will hire runners all over conferences to get information needed or benefited the company. It is simply because innovation give new business opportunity to them. Because of that, some may choose not to reveal the full accurate info in the publication, because people may copy them easily.....then, how Ethics in Education represent in this situation? Beside the plagiarism issues, how about the accuracy? It is quite blurry to explain, because normally new findings have less expertise to argue.....except over the controversy on recent paper published by Seralini on GM Maize; where scientist around the world urging the French scientist to release the full research data in which he linked consumption of NK603 maize increased incidence of tumors in rats (resources: The Petri Dish, November 2012 issues).
This 3 days courses give some frameworks and models that so far workable for industries and research institutes in UK, US, Australia etc. to collaborate....there is no definite answer that the models can suite here in our country or will still reliable in the next 10 years....but at least it one of the best method so far....
It is quite interesting to know how far and how many steps we should do to facilitate the penetration of research findings into real market....the workshop is a good efforts that MOSTI shall continue....this kind of workshop should be handle annually and broad the scope to other agencies related......maybe next time we should focus on every agencies problems related to engagement of research findings and commercialization challenges.....and see how we could go forwards with the best collaboration/ venture/ capital investment that suite every cases.....i believe everybody will be happy to contribute without hiding any information related.....because everybody get their portion (royalty, dividend, share etc.) and fair agreement to agree :-D
p/s : This is just my own opinion. Please do refer to other sources and references for further clarification...
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