Ideas and scientific findings are drivers of innovation and medical progress. But how do you recognize an innovation and make it accessible to users, while protecting the corresponding intellectual property (IP)?

In this workshop, participants will be informed about the relevance of intellectual property and different options for the protection and exploitation of scientific innovations. Focus of this workshop is the introduction of intellectual property rights for technical inventions, software and trade secrets. On this basis, various options for the transfer of innovations into practical application will be shown – covering licensing models and the sale of IP rights as well as IP-based founding of your own company. The workshop concept features an interactive approach and focuses on examples with a practical relevance.

The course is designed to raise awareness for the innovation potential in your daily work, impart sound knowledge for the protection of intellectual property and show perspectives for the realization and commercial exploitation of your own innovations.

The workshop is targeted both at participants with a concrete innovation or start-up idea as well as those who have a fundamental interest in the topic.

• What are innovations and where do they originate?
• What legal opportunities exist to protect ideas and scientific findings?
• How relevant is intellectual property for the exploitations of innovations?
• Application of the workshop content using practical examples.