Intellectual Property, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Recommended Prerequisites

Regulatory Affairs and Patents (3^rd 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)

No

Syllabus

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)

José Ricardo Cotrim Saraiva de Aguilar

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.