D8.1 Report on IPR/ Exploitation Seminars

Within the framework of AGRICORE’s WP8-related activities, particularly in Task 8.1 “IPR management”, three IPR exploitation workshops were organized and held by partner AXIA aiming to support the project’s exploitation planning and provide a basis for the rest of the WP8’s activities. Given the current pandemic situation, in order to achieve the timely and successful implementation of the project those 3 workshops were held remotely in the form of online webinars. In addition to the workshops, the IPR management analysis was carried out utilizing IPR and exploitation questionnaires that were circulated amongst the project partners, providing valuable inputs, and gathering the required information. Finally, individual online meetings were held between the IPR management team and each of the project partners, aiming to result in a clear characterization of the partners’ IPR as well as their exploitation paths and IP protection intentions.
This deliverable summarizes the aforementioned work, illustrating how the 3 IPR workshops were used together with the individual meetings and the circulated questionnaires to support and optimize AGRICORE’s IPR management, boosting its potential impact. The presentations of the 3 workshops are illustrated and put into perspective on how they integrate to the general IPR management strategy of the project.
Additionally, the characterization and determination of the partners’ background and foreground coming into the AGRICORE project are presented. Based on this, the identification of the individual key exploitable results arising from the respective backgrounds is illustrated and cataloged. Moreover, the deliverable includes a draft analysis of the IPR management plan highlighting the exploitation roadmap per partner based on their individual Ker Exploitation Results. In particular, special attention was paid to the exploitation intentions of AGRICORE partners for their individual KERs. Such intentions incorporate the foreseen and the potential exploitation routes of those results, as well as the IP protection planning and important aspects of it.
This report will also be used as input for upcoming key activities of the project such as the AGRICORE Suite’s open-source software license selection in Task 8.4. Particular focus was placed on the concepts surrounding open-source software licenses in the IPR exploitation workshops. The key ideas behind them were discussed and various examples were provided, in the workshops as well as in the individual meetings, focusing on supporting the consortium in the selection process and providing basic background on the selection criteria. Furthermore, the KER characterization included the identification and targeted gathering of information that are necessary for the license selection, covering important aspects of the selection criteria (dependencies, derivative works, exploitation routes).