A day at the (home) office with Kirsten… from Crowdience!
By Kirsten Bevelander, Scientific Researcher Public Health & Citizen Science Today is an exciting day. We’re going to launch the first project on our new and improved scientific crowdsourcing platform. The last six months we worked really hard to ensure digital inclusion for low literacy people and people with an Intellectual Disability on our platform. […]
A student has a brilliant idea: who is the owner?
The rules about ownership of ideas coming from university employees are clear. By law, by contract, and by collective labour agreement, all Intellectual Property (IP) generated by employees is owned by the university. But how does it work for students? Unfortunately, the rules were not so clear in the past. For students, IP can (depending […]
Expert blog: ‘Patents in business, and why you should care’
By Valeria De Matteis, IP patent attorney at Synthon B.V. In the competitive world of today the importance of Intellectual Property in your business should not be underestimated. A patent can help you protect your idea and raise the value of your (startup) company considerably. At the same time, a competitor’s patent can completely block […]
Top 3 go-to places for Intellectual Property questions!
Innovation, startups and Intellectual Property (IP) go side by side. But what is it? And where do you go if you have questions about it? Intellectual property (IP) officially refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. Intellectual property is basically […]