Intellectual Property, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
4
2018-2019
02035659
Optional
Portuguese
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
3.0
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Regulatory Affairs and Patents (3rd Year Biomedical Pharmacy Degree); Good skills in English language.
Teaching Methods
Plenary lectures. Seminars. Team Works.
Learning Outcomes
Unit focused in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, with the objective of enlarging the students´skills and competences, developing the following areas: 1) Protection and valorization of R&D results through the use of IP rights; 2) Stimulous to the development by the students of innovative and entrepreneurial activities. The wide spectrum of topics covered by this unit aim to stimulate and prepare the students to the modern knowledge economy challenges, assuming their performance of labour duties in high-intensive companies but principally on their self-employment, through the launch of healthcare & life sciences tech-based start-up companies.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Intellectual Property Rights: patents, trademarks, design rights; copyright, software and database protection; Trade secrets
Knowledge valorization: licensing and assigning of IP Rights; Technology Transfer Agreements
Science-Industry interactions and R&D projects
The creation of start-up companies: challenges and requisites
Seminar: Success cases and talks of healthcare & life sciences entrepreneurs
Seminar/Teamwork: business ideas and its protection through IP rights
Developing, maturing and communicating business ideas: Business Model Canvas and Elevator Pitch
Final presentations of student´s team works.
Head Lecturer(s)
Francisco José Batista Veiga
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Resolution Problems: 35.0%
Exam: 65.0%
Bibliography
Tutoriais do Instituto Europeu de Patentes e IPIUE - Instituto de Propriedade Intelectual da União Europeia
Legislação relevante, ao nível nacional e internacional
Tutorials from the EPO and EUIPO
Legislation, from national and international sources.