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Exploitation beyond the asset’s original purpose – does your strategy enable you to identify external opportunities and take decisions about valuable and impactful knowledge transfer? Can third parties identify how to obtain a license to access your knowledge assets?

After a review of knowledge assets is complete, an organisation should have a better understanding of its knowledge assets and be able to identify risks and opportunities and take appropriate action in response. Ownership of knowledge assets generated by employeeshow the knowledge assets will be appropriately protected. The intangible nature of knowledge assets means that relevant protection measures may be required, through legal and other means, to ensure that they can be used effectively by the organisation A. Strategically managing knowledge assets can lead to the realisation of several benefits such as derivation of value from underutilised knowledge assets, saving resources by avoiding the duplication in the acquisition or creation of knowledge assets, and lowered risk of IP infringement. More detail on each of these types of asset and the associated IP rights and other methods of protection is set out in Annex A of this guidance. Who should follow this guidance? Government is a large driver of R&D in the UK economy. It provides significant funding to universities and others to provide this R&D through grants, but it also spends a significant amount on such activity on its own account. Knowledge assets are the primary output of this R&D and proper identification, protection and exploitation of these assets is key to ensuring that the R&D is being effectively managed. Digital delivery is an important part of our public services, and this is often underpinned by the provision of specialist software. Such software can be central to the delivery of your organisation’s objectives, and can be expensive to develop or buy. These make it a valuable knowledge asset. The Government Digital Service provides a Technology Code of Practice which should be used for all technology projects or programmes.

Ownership of IP rights carries responsibility for its protection and the potential liabilities, should there be a claim from a third party that the IP rights infringes their own IP rights. These responsibilities can have significant cost and risk implications, for which it is advisable to seek additional support (see further resources in chapter 8).

To make a garden is to feel, in Solnit’s words, more “agrarian, settled, to bet on a future in which the roses and trees would bloom for years and the latter would bear fruit in decades to come”. By the time Orwell’s roses flowered that summer, the Spanish civil war had broken out. As they grew, Europe spiralled closer to conflict. But the buds would still swell and the petals would still fall, and in the midst of death there would be new life, a cycle that helps explain why gardens and nature more generally have been such a comfort to so many through the grief and loss of the pandemic. It is valuable for an organisation to have in place mechanisms that help to identify knowledge assets at the point of their creation or even in anticipation of their creation. By identifying them at this early stage, an organisation will be much better placed to make strategic decisions, for example around ownership, protection and potential wider uses that will allow their value to be maximised over the long-term. It can also provide an opportunity to consider whether the organisation already holds or has access to existing knowledge assets that could be leveraged or repurposed in a way that delivered greater value for money than creating a new asset. Knowhow refers to practical knowledge about how to do something, which can be hugely valuable. Knowhow might encompass material which could go on to be protected by IP, such as a patentable invention before the patent application has been made. It might be something related to, but not part of, an IP right, such as specialist knowledge required to operate a machine. Knowhow might also be something entirely separate from IP rights, such as the competitive advantage inherent in having a more efficient business model than a competitor. Knowhow can be treated in much the same way as other IP rights, usually protected by trade secrecy when forming part of a licence or collaboration agreement. It can also be all information not in the public domain held in any form, including without limitation that comprised in or derived from drawings, data formulae, patterns, specifications, notes, samples, chemical compounds, biological materials, computer software, component lists, instructions, manuals, brochures, catalogues and process descriptions and scientific approaches and methods. Nors ir labai bijojau didžiulės knygos apimties, perskaičiau greitai ir supratau, kad tikrai mėgstu tas kelių kartų istorijas. Skaitydamas spėji susigyventi su visais veikėjais, randi savo favoritus, kitų nuoširdžiai nekemti, lyg paslapčia stebi jų pakylimus ir nuopuolius. Pabaigus, net liūdna su jais atsisveikinti.⠀ Skaitant kūrinį stebime, kaip verslai, nekilnojamas turtas ir išdidumas išskiria, supriešina draugus, gimines, mylimuosius.

It is essential that the formulation of the procurement strategy, options and eventual procurement sourcing plan are developed in conjunction with Commercial and IP specialists at the start of the process. For complex contracts, one may wish to obtain specialist legal advice on the most suitable knowledge assets arrangements. the four elements of creating a knowledge asset management strategy: 1) strategic context, 2) approach to knowledge asset management, 3) implementation of strategy, 4) evaluation and review of strategy Some of the previous sections which look at how knowledge assets are generated have considered issues of ownership, particularly where those knowledge assets are generated working with other organisations.There is a huge number of organisations that collect data to support their activities across government. Wherever there is systematic data collection, a potentially valuable knowledge asset may be generated. This chapter explains the very first step of managing knowledge assets, which is to identify them. It covers: regularly provides details of knowledge asset use (such as type, quantity, frequency) to knowledge assets officer Po tėvo mirties, paveldėjusi medvilnės plantaciją, Merė net nenutuokė, kiek daug džiaugsmo ir skausmo ji jai atneš. ⠀ Innovation refers to new inventions, processes and ways of working, and can be made known to the public alongside protection with IP rights or kept secret. Design rights protect the shape and appearance of a product, including the layout of integrated circuitry.

Once established, the Government Office for Technology Transfer will be able to offer some support to organisations in implementing parts of this guidance. More detail on this and other support is included in chapter 8. What are knowledge assets? Organisations must act compatibly with the law governing personal data, so as not to breach the public’s trust, and to provide reassurance that personal and sensitive data, such as health data, is treated safely, securely and ethically within appropriate governance frameworks. When such personal sensitive data is shared, it must be needs-based and proportionate to comply with the law and codes of practice. responsible for the management of knowledge assets as part of their existing day-to-day role (distinct from the SRO) An organisation should therefore consider the processes and activities that it undertakes that are likely to give rise to significant knowledge assets. It is not possible to be comprehensive, given the wide range of circumstances under which knowledge assets can arise. However, any work involving the creation or compilation of information is likely to result in the generation of some knowledge assets. Some of the most common routes that will be applicable to many organisations include:But not all the branching diversions of this book are so successful. A chapter on coal, which ends by arguing that Orwell’s planting of a garden half a century before climate change entered the public consciousness could be interpreted as the nurturing of “a few more carbon-sequestering, oxygen-producing organisms”, feels at best tortuously grafted on to the rest. I could have happily taken the secateurs to Solnit’s musings on the coincidence between being served Jaffa Cakes on her British Air [sic] flight to Britain and then reading an article about Palestinian children visiting the beach at Jaffa – an anecdote that tells the reader nothing of any significance about either. Evaluation methods – for example, some innovation-heavy departments have patent targets against which to compare their activity. How will success be measured? Key takeaways Government also holds significant amounts of data that is not personal or sensitive. Information like this when captured and stored by public bodies should be accurate, reliable and easily accessible for those who depend on it, whether they are businesses, public agencies, voluntary sector organisations or individuals. For further asset-specific information, see Annex A. IT projects These sorts of database are particularly useful where unregistered rights have been licensed or where source code has been openly acquired (enabling the decision-making process in this regard to be clearly recorded for future reference). Even the decision to treat the invention as a trade secret can be clearly recorded. Evaluating knowledge assets