Seminar & MDP Details



IIM Ahmedabad

Harnessing Intellectual Property for Strategic Competitive Advantage
Programme Director: Prof. Anil K. Gupta
July 2-4, 2004
Fees: Rs. 22000 (US$ 650 for participants from other countries)

Objective:

  • To familiarize the participants with the basic theory and practice of IP regimes in India as well as the world.

  • To look into specific cases of competitive advantage gained through protection of IP in formal as well as informal sectors.

  • To get hands-on experience in reading patents, reviewing prior art, and understanding the strategic issues involved in protection of IP.

  • To appreciate the dimensions of licensing associated with IP protection.

For:

  • This programme aims at equipping senior leaders, researchers, policy planners, and managers of private and public sector firms, research and development organizations, and industries in agribusiness, biotechnological, and herbal and other drug sectors. It will equip them with skills and perspectives in the field of intellectual property management. The focus will be on knowledge intensive approaches to developing competitive technologies, products, and services in a globalizing economy. The ethical aspects of knowledge extraction and utilization will also be discussed with particular reference to biodiversity-based products and traditional knowledge systems. Various individuals and groups in formal and informal sectors producing commercializable intellectual property (IP) may thus recognize how protection of IP can help them harness strategic gains in a highly competitive economy. The emerging legal and statutory changes in IP laws will be reviewed so that firms and research institutions can prepare themselves for the post-TRIPS scenario. Various dimensions of knowledge management within firms and social networks will also be discussed. The advantages of linkages with informal sources of innovation at grassroots will be highlighted.

Contents:

  • Theory of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and competitive advantage in a knowledge economy

  • Various instruments of intellectual property protection such as patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, geographical indications, trade secrets, etc. in national and international context

  • Biodiversity, traditional knowledge, plant variety protection, plant patents

  • Global context of herbal patents, herbal and other drugs

  • Hands-on workshop on filing patents, searching prior art, developing claims, etc.

  • Managing brands through trademark protection

  • Licensing of technologies nationally and internationally; negotiations strategies

  • Organizational incentives for IPR protection in teams as well as by individuals in firms and research organizations; inter-organizational networking for harnessing intellectual property

  • Partnership between private and public sector

  • R&D organizations for global competitive advantage


For further information, please contact the
Manager (MDA),
Indian Institute of Management,
Vastrapur, Ahmedabad - 380 015.
Tel: 91-79-632 4071-5/630 7241
Fax: 91-79-630 0352 (MDP); 630 6896 (General)
Email: mdp@iimahd.ernet.in
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