The following is a draft outline of points that will be included in the IPR management plan:

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1 The following is a draft outline of points that will be included in the IPR management plan: 1. Initiation - Regulate the needs driven generation of disruptive knowledge and IP. 2. Initiation - Decide on the best activities to begin with to ensure relevance while providing a foundation for the years to come. 3. Initiation - Capture and identify the IP that could arise from the results. 4. Evaluation Evaluate results to determine if they have potential value and determine how to initially handle them. 5. Verification / Validation - Ensure that there are market / industrial needs and potential in the intellectual property developed. 6. Creation - Secure and protect the formal patenting of IP. 7. Commercialization / Monetization - Plan for creation of business value from the secured IP. 8. Finance - Fund the managing and securing of IP and development. 9. Management / Governance Determine the organization for management of: IP policies, procedures, managers, decision making, incentives, etc. 10. Implementation of the Agreement Identify the elements that are connected to the IPR ownership, decisions on joint ownership, license management, etc.

2 Dessa stöddokument innehåller mycket av det man bör tänka på men det blir väldigt omfattande/komplext och jag vet inte hur mycket plats ni har i ansökan. Jag kan peka på/sammanfatta en del aspekter som jag tror man bör beakta i ert fall där nog 3. och framåt är rakt på IPR- plan men 1-2 viktigt. 1. Initiation - uppstart av projekt- Behovsdriven/ disruptive knowledge/ip generation- hur säkerställer man att centrets forskning initieras, inspireras, matas utifrån behov/kunskap/samarbeten som möjliggör att mer behovsinriktad, disruptiv, kommersiellt intressant kunskap och IP kan skapas. 2. Initiation - urval för start av projekt som ska bedrivas- hur säkerställer man att det man påbörjar forskning på är relevant och har potential 3. Capture -identifiering av resultat och IP- hur säkerställer man att man kontinuerligt fångar upp olika former av IP (inte bara patent) - här krävs processer och rutiner och struktur inom centret - här fallerar mycket och ofta i praktiken. Vem monitorerar efter resultat? 4. Evaluation - hur utvärderar man resultat för att utvärdera ifall de har potential/värde och avgöra hur man initialt ska hantera dem - krävs processer, kunskap och struktur inom centret för att göra det praktiskt - detta är ungefär vad KTH Innovation normalt gör. 5. Verification/Validation - hur gör man för att säkerställa att det finns marknads/industriellt behov och potential för framtagen IP och hur utvecklar man stegvis resultat för att avgöra och öka deras värde - hur vet man om industriparter är intresserade eller inte. Detta är vad KTH Innovation normalt gör genom verifiering av olika nyckelområden såsom technology, IPR, market potential, customer contacts, business model etc. 6. Creation - hur säkrar och skyddar man formellt IP- patentering, hur kontrollerar man tillgång till IP, sekretess, Publicering- kopplar hit hur säkerställer man bortpublicering inte sker av resultat/ip. Även samarbete/integering med industriparter koplar till punkt 6-7. Hur involverar man industri för uppskalning/industrialisering/tester osv som är svårt att göra inom forskningen. 7. Commercialization/Monetization - hur skapar man affärsvärde ur säkrad IPberor på vilka strategier man har valt och som är möjliga. Kan man skapa separata bolag, samägda bolag, licensiera till externa, skapa start-up, parter ta vidare/köpa loss osv. 8. Finansiering - hur ser man att man kan finansiera hantering och säkring av IP samt utveckling- ska parter bidra- ibland får industri stå för kostnader om de ska ha licenser- i VINN Excellence center har KTH Holding stått för patentkostnader i inledande/intermediära faser innan industrin kunnat avgöra sitt intresse osv.

3 9. Management/governance - hur planerar man att organisatoriskt hantera: IPpolicies, rutiner, ansvariga, beslutsprocesser, incitament osv. Det brukar inte sällan etableras någon IP/patent/exploitation committee och någon ansvarig. Svårt att fullfölja operativt med full attention 10. Implementering av avtalets delar som kopplar till IPR - ägande, beslut vid samägande, licenshantering osv. Det man skriver i IPR planen måste vara i linje med hur avtalet konstrueras t.ex. nu har parter mycket licenser osv och samägande är inte otroligt, gör det svårt att licensiera exklusivt/sälja till externa parter

4 Outline/first version of IPR management plan. Several aspects related to IPR management will be regulated by the centre agreement but the IPR management plan also includes additional aspects that are important for being able to build, capture develop and commercialize/create impact of IPR in various forms that are generated by the centre. The IPR management plan aims to operationalize and give a structure e.g. activities related to IPR management that are performed (what, how, when, by whom etc). The key components and activities of the IPR management plan are listed below. The IPR management will be dependent upon within which organization it is generated. The below key activities are primarily listed to manage IPR generated at academic partners. Phase/component 1. Initiation-of projects, results, IPR and cooperations for commercial Description/Objective - Enable needs driven generation of disruptive knowledge and IP. - Decide on the best and prioritized research activities to launch to ensure relevance, potential for impact, feasibility etc. - Project planning and proposals- templates to include components on need, novelty, value/impact, possible forms of IPR that could generated etc (responsible centre management) - Evaluation- decisions on projects to involve partners and include assessment of need/relevance and feasibility (responsible centre management) - Set-up of project organisations- inclusion of partners in projects, focus on demonstrators to facilitate cross-fertilization, integration of disciplines and partners (responsible centre management) 2. Capture and identificationof IPR in generated results. - Identify potentially important and valuable IP assets - Establishing simple process for results pre- publication screening (responsible centre management supported by KTH Innovation) - Regular structured IP reviews of project results- e.g. yearly intellectual asset inventories of projects to scan, find, describe and define IP assets (workshops facilitated by KTH Innovation or other support organization) - Training of researchers- basic training workshops on basics of IPR, how to spot ideas and your valuable IP assets or similar (supported by KTH Innovation or other support organization) - Regular workshops and testing periods with industry to in structured way present results, enable early-on jointly identifying interesting results. 3. Evaluation- of identified - Initial evaluation of interesting results to determine if they have IPR/results potential value and determine how to initially handle them. - Initial feasibility analysis e.g. ownership/legal aspects, novelty/patentability and commercial potential (supported by KTH Innovation and use of SSF 3% funds for external experts) - Establishing simple process for results communication to industry to assess their input/interest. (responsible centre management) 4. Verification / Validation-of defined IPR with potential - Ensure that there are market/industrial needs for and potential value in a specific result/technology and how it could be further developed and protected - Planning and launch of stepwise verification to assess key aspects (facilitated by KTH Innovation, SFF funds for use of external experts ) - Inclusion of results in demonstrators, involvement of partners and others in validation of value and plan e.g. through an innovation council/board. 5. Creation of formal IPR - Secure and protecting results/concepts/technologies through different forms of IPR e.g. patenting. - Defining possible and suitable protection strategy (first IPR strategy) and possibly securing in the form of patents etc. (facilitated by KTH Innovation and use of external experts)

5 6. Commercialization - Planning and development of business concepts to create /Monetization of secured IPR business value and impact. - Defining plan for commercial development and strategies (facilitated by KTH Innovation - Financing work to plan and actively secure for funding securing IPR over time and development of concept (outside centre) (facilitated by KTH Innovation Supporting IPR management 7. Management / Governance for management of IPR - Determine the organization, policies, procedures, decision making, incentives etc that is needed for IPR management - Defining organization and team for IPR- clear structure. - Draft basic processes and internal responsibilities, decision making in centre 8 Implementation of Agreement for IPR relevant parts. - Make sure to adhere to parts connected to the IPR management e.g. ownership, decisions on joint ownership, licenses etc..