Business Aspect of Intellectual Properties “Si Juki”

Si Juki is an example of a thriving local Indonesian IP management. Starting from 2010 with a comic strip uploaded via social media, Facebook has developed into an IP that the Indonesian people love. Si Juki is also an animated feature film with the most significant number of viewers. This phenomenon, of course, has attracted more attention from the Indonesian people. In developing an IP, 2 essential aspects must be considered by the IP maker must consider two essential aspects, namely the creative element and the business aspect. Without thinking about the business aspect, Ip is just an ordinary art that cannot survive in the industry. The Author, on this occasion, will examine the business aspects carried out by the Juki IP development team in Indonesia based on data available online based on business and marketing theories.

Possible ways of IP Commercialisation in the European Higher Education Ecosystem

Strong links between universities, and companies can play crucial role in promoting taking into practice of ideas that drive the knowledge society, and in raising competitiveness and living standards. In academic terms of IP management, all activities aimed at sharing knowledge generated in research institutions as a knowledge transfer including scientific publishing, conference presentations, collaborative research with external partners, and contract-based clustering activities, such as licensing and spin-offs. In a narrower sense, the IP management means technology transfer is aimed at placing a given technology on the market, and includes any process by which the recovery partner becomes able to produce new products or services. IP with traditional university mission, values, and activities primarily focusing an active university role in entrepreneurship and contracts with private sector for IP commercialization. This paper gives a comprehensive overview about IP management in universities of the European Higher Education System including the following aspects: partnerships (licensing, industry collaborators); IP invention (disclosures, patenting); proof of concept research bridging the gap between lab discoveries and market application (highly innovative R&D to solve practical problems and commercialization research aiming patented technologies towards business exploitations) and commercialization (start-up incubators and strengthening the entrepreneurial attitudes and competencies). The methodology based on secondary research analysing EU, OECD, on-line literature sources and relevant, up-to date statistical data as well. The conclusions and recommendations based on this „desk research” work reflects the authors.

DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES: INVESTIGATING REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUPWARE

Open source hardware is hardware whose design is shared online so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell it. In spite of the increasing popularity of this alternative IP management approach, the field of OSH remains fragmented of diverse practices seeking for settlement. This challenges providers of groupware solutions to capture the specific needs of open source product development practitioners. This contribution therefore delivers a list of basic requirements and verifies them by comparing offered functions of existing groupware solutions.