The experience of forming intellectual property management system at UrFU

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of upgrading intellectual property efficacy. The aim of the article is to compile a system of IP commercialization mechanisms at the universities (using the example of UrFU) and identify measures allowing for improving efficacy of these activities.. The research is built on the following logic: analysis of the market related to university technologies commercialization and context and factors of its formation in Russia. Using the example of IP management mechanisms implemented nowadays at UrFU authors conduct the analysis of commercialization objects and the factors influencing the process and results of commercialization. Particular attention is given to the systematization of getting profit from university generated IP commercialization. It is shown that benefits from using IP can be obtained in the form of royalties or other payments, for example, part of profit received from product and services sales generated by the university or companies created with its support. In this case identification of above mentioned forms is not just a formal technical procedure, but an activity, supporting the balance of interests of all intellectual property subjects involved in the commercialization process. The relevance of this task is also supported by the fact that compared to foreign universities, Russian universities get much smaller share of their IP related income in the form of royalties/ The article provides systematic description of UrFU experience in implementing commercialization strategy, policy and mechanisms. It provides the basis for UrFU key development trends in intellectual property management, including involvement of young people into inventive and other creative activities, searching and implementing active forms of technology transfer active forms, forming and developing methodology and practice of identifying intellectual component of innovative products and services.