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We are now reaching the stage of the Technician Commitment project where we need to review the action plan worked on over the last two years. In doing this we have to evidence how the technicians have engaged with the commitment.

We are planning to run some online focus groups (via Teams), the first on Friday 16th October at 2pm, to obtain feedback on the initiatives so far and also to assess what is important to Technicians moving forwards over the next three years.

We would really appreciate your help with engaging in these focus groups. This shouldn’t take more than an hour of your time.

For an invite to the focus group teams meeting, please email: Technicians@warwick.ac.uk.

Technicians from the eight Midlands Innovation universities have launched a new first of its kind equipment sharing initiative, comprising of a brochure, highlighting the excellent facilities across the consortium, and an equipment sharing fund to provide our researchers with the mechanism for access.

A part of the Research England funded TALENT programme, the Technician Led Equipment Sharing project has been designed to demonstrate how technical colleagues can lead the effective sharing of equipment to further the research and develop collaborations across Midlands Innovation institutions.

Equipment sharing brochure

Apply here for the Equipment Sharing Fund

This session will introduce the subject of intellectual property and how it might impact the work of technical staff in Universities.

Topics covered include:

• Why / when should I be bothered with IP?
• What is IP? - types of IP and their relevance
• Typical IP scenarios in Universities (e.g. industrial collaborations, licensing, spinouts)
• How universities typically manage IP - including IP ownership and sharing in revenues
• Discussion: How does it impact you as technical staff

Wednedsay 14 October 2020 - 1400 - 1530

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