Capacity building on Intellectual Property (IP) management to support open science

Open science is an approach based on open cooperative work and systematic sharing of knowledge and tools as early and widely as possible in the scientific process. Adequate management of IPR over research results is necessary for such cooperative work and systematic sharing to happen. However, a lack of awareness and understanding of IPR -in particular given the complexity of the relevant legal and regulatory landscape- sometimes leads to mismanagement of IP and the consequent difficulty of researchers and institutions to determine how their research is disseminated.

Copyright is an area of particular importance for open science within the field of IP, since the bundle of rights that authors have on their original works (e.g. scientific publications or databases) allow them to set the conditions for their dissemination and re-use.

Greater awareness of their rights and how they can be exercised would help authors to make more informed choices and get them in control about the further usage of t