LICENSING ACADEMY
Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer™
Program
The Licensing Academy is a 9-day professional training program that is accredited by the University of California, Davis, jointly hosted by PIPRA and the UC Davis School of Law. The Licensing Academy course enters its ninth and final year in 2019, and represents an ideal capacity-building experience for international lawyers, technology managers, and scientific professionals in the public sector or in small to medium-sized enterprises interested in learning about and understanding successful models of U.S. intellectual property management.
During its first eight years, the Licensing Academy trained more than 275 students from 55 countries, creating a powerful international network for the transfer of technologies created in public sector research institutions around the world.
Topics
The program includes topics such as:
- The U.S. and international IP legal framework
- Licensing agreements
- IP management and protection
- Starting and managing technology transfer offices
- Invention commercialization
- Technology-based startups and spin-offs from public sector institutions
Potencial Benefits
The Licensing Academy offers multiple potential benefits to its participants, including:
- Increased knowledge of the ways that IP management can help bring their country’s innovations to market.
- An expanded international professional network.
- Opportunities for hands-on instruction from professionals with multidisciplinary expertise in law, science, and business.
- Improved capability to link published research inventions with entrepreneurs in the private sector.
- Creation of an entrepreneurial culture within public institutions.
- Knowledge about how to approach research with commercialization as the end goal.
2019 Licensing Academy
The 2019 Licensing Academy will be held from Tuesday, 18 June – Friday, 28 June in Davis, California, USA. Tuition is US$3,275, with a non-refundable fee of US$150. If you are interested, please register online.
An article highlighting the 2018 Licening Academy is available on the website of the UC Davis School of Law.
Scholarships are available, on a competitive basis, to participants from developing countries. These scholarships cover a portion of tuition and/or travel expenses.
See our brochure.
For more information, contact lawinfo@ucde.ucdavis.edu.