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Activities

IPICA actively involves a wide range of stakeholders: from policy level (IP offices, ministries), to research organisations (HEIs), individuals involved in research and enterprise (researchers, KT practitioners, entrepreneurs) and international organisations. It covers a varied mix of activities: analysis and evaluation, action research, capacity building for different target groups, multi-stakeholder working groups and forums, events, publications and policy recommendations. These activities are reinforced by a tailored dissemination and awareness-raising strategy including special events, competitions and conferences.
 
 
Grouped into work packages, each activity for IPICA will deliver outputs that feed into subsequent activities and thus contribute to reaching the action’s objectives in a period over 36 months.
 

  • CREATING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE: Platform for knowledge sharing will be created (website), Comparative analysis of IP & KT policy frameworks, Benchmarking institutional IP & KT policies and Fact finding mission.

 

  • MODERNISING KT & IPR POLICY FRAMEWORKS: Multi-stakeholder working groups & meetings, 3 National Multi-stakeholder workshops, 2 Regional multi-stakeholder workshops and Policy recommendations.

 

  • MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CAPACITY BUILDING: Training for STI organisation leaders and policy makers, Training for technology transfer practitioners, Training for inventors & entrepreneurs and Replication of training workshops in partner countries.

 

  • INNOVATION SUPPORT SERVICE & PILOT ACTIONS: IPR & KT experts database & helpline, ‘E(nergy)-EFFICIENCY’ competition, Innovation projects coaching & implementation.

 

  • PROMOTING INNOVATION CULTURE & DISSEMINATION: Dissemination strategy, IPR quiz, 3 Science days for girls in partner countries, 1 Internat and Conference.

 

  • QUALITY CONTROL: Establishing quality control procedures and control points, External feedback control

 

  • MANAGEMENT: On-going project management and project coordination meetings.

ACP FACTSHEET

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the ACP Secretariat and the European Union.

Events

Barriers in the knowledge transfer chain & research to market process in the Caribbean
FH JOANNEUM, partners in the IPICA project, just published the report "Barriers in the knowledge transfer chain & research to market process in the Caribbean”. The report identifies potential... read more...