VIPS Press Pack: Supporting innovation with IPR
In a recent project co-financed by the European Commission under the Innovation programme, a consortium of European universities and technology institutes highlighted a number of barriers to innovation that were linked to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). As a result, four pioneering schemes, already in use by individual consortium members, are being extended to other universities in pilot projects designed to improve the use of IPR as a tool for promoting innovation throughout the EU. Keywords: IPR, innovation, patents, co-operation, research, universities VIPS: http://cordis.europa.eu/innovation-smes/vips/en/src/en-pp-4-003.htm(opens in new window)