NIPC News

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Sunday was World Creativity and Innovation Day  as well as Easter. By a resolution of  27 April 2017 , the UN General Assembly designated the 21 April as World Creativity and Innovation Day. All UN member states, UN organizations and other international and regional organizations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals are invited "to observe the day in an appropriate manner and in accordance with national priorities, in order to raise awareness of the role of creativity and innovation in problem-solving and, by extension, economic, social and sustainable development." At least one British institution is marking the day.   I spotted this post on the Royal Opera House's Facebook page: It was, in fact, the House's post that drew my attention to the event and made me look into it. Creativity and innovation are what intellectual property protects. It is, therefore, appr...

Sir Richard Lambert Author Financial Times Licence Creative Commons Attribution0Share Alike 2.0 Generic Source Wikipedia Sir Richard Lambert Jane Lambert The Lambert Toolkit  is a set of precedents (templates) and notes to help universities and business owners draft agreements to decide who should benefit from any technological developments or innovation that might result from research or other work that universities carry out for business.  They are named after Sir Richard Lambert ,  a former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry, member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England and editor of the Financial Times.  I had very little to do with the toolkit though I did attend a meeting chaired by Sir Richard and contributed to the drafting of one of the clauses of at least one of the draft agreements. Although the draft agreements are not compulsory they do save time and money and minimize the...