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Responsible:
BTB & MIS
Assistance:
EWC and / or UoE
as technical & NIEB
as medical editor, all partners
Publications
in relevant journals
We expect that many of the activities within the
CARiMan Network will provide valuable results suitable for publication in
relevant scientific (medical, technical or neuroscience) journals. To make the
results of our work highly visible and to promote their impact on the
development of the fields covered by CARiMan, partners will be encouraged to
prepare papers presenting the results of research in highly ranked international
journals. The responsibility for publications will be held by leaders of
Integrated Activities and Jointly Executed Research Activities. As the process
of publication is rather long, we expect that during the first 18 months authors
will be able to present just a few manuscripts presenting the research progress.
Most results will be published later.
Intellectual
Property Management
Intellectual property, often known as IP, allows people
to own their creativity and innovation in the same way that they can own
physical property. The owner of IP can control and be rewarded for its use, and
this encourages further innovation and creativity to the benefit of us all. In some cases IP gives rise to protection for
ideas but in other areas the ideas will need elaboration before protection can
arise. It will often not be possible to protect IP rights (or IPRs) unless they
have been applied for and granted, but some IP protection such as copyright
arises automatically, without any registration, as soon as there is a record in
some form of what has been created.
The four main types of IP are:
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patent: for inventions - new and improved products and
processes that are capable of industrial application,
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trade marks:
for brand identity - of goods and services allowing distinctions to be made
between different traders and gain IP,
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designs: for product appearance - of the whole or a part
of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours,
colours, shape, texture or materials of the product itself or its ornamentation,
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copyright: for material - literary and artistic material,
music, films, sound recordings and broadcasts, including software and
multimedia.
However, IP is much broader than this extending to
trade secrets, plant varieties, geographical indications, performers rights and
so on. To understand exactly what can be protected by IP, it is necessary to
check the four main areas of patent, copyright, trademarks and designs as well
as other IP. Often, more than one type of IP may apply to the same creation.
In the CARiMan Network of Excellence, the participants
will own the intellectual property of the knowledge resulting from the project.
However due to the significant integration of the work it may not be clear-cut
who owns what. Therefore it is necessary to lay down procedure for managing the
intellectual property issues within the network. Also the participant
institutions may have different procedures for sharing IPR and the governing
laws in partner countries may differ. Therefore it is proposed to develop
procedures for the management of intellectual property within CARiMan. The first
phase of the work will be an information gathering and analysis exercise to
determine the different practices within partner institutions and countries.
Consequently a consultative document will be distributed to all partners to
obtain their views. Finally procedures for managing IPR will be put in place.
This work is outlined in the work package D4-WP2.
All responsible, the Members of the Extended Management
Board (EMB) are Reviewer. Editor in Chief :
Technical part:
- Professor Robert J. Stone
/ EWC
- Dr. Chris Baber/ EWC
and
- Professor Peter Cowling/ UBrad
-
Dr
Keshav Dahal/ UBrad
Medical part:
- Prof. Anna Grabowska / NIEB
-
Prof. Piotr Jaśkowski / NIEB
The publishing of all reviewed papers is on the web
organised by AIT.
Flyers, brochures, and promotional literature for
SMEs
The businesses in Europe are largely SMES in terms of
number. Furthermore SMES do not have their own R & D facilities to develop
products and therefore are most likely to benefit from the research findings of
CARiMan Network. Therefore it is intended to produce promotional material to
help SMES to promote their businesses and products and opportunities for further
developing their products through schemes such as TCS (Teaching Company Scheme), CBP
(Colleges and Businesses in Partnership) and FUSION in the UK run by the Technology Transfer and Innovation Ltd (TTI).
TTI is now responsible for the DTI's (Department of Trade & Industry)
programme of International Secondments
which is particularly relevant for European Integration.
The work proposed will fall
into two phases. The first phase will be to determine the best way to promote
SMES in a European context and to find out the European wide technology transfer
schemes relevant to the work of CARiMan. In the second phase, the useful
information will be sifted and published both electronically and on paper.
Web based information will be published on the CARiMAN website, and via
links to appropriate European organisations.
Published information will be available for downloading by SMES and other
interested parties. A programme of mailings of printed newsletters and
promotional information will be made to organisations identified in data
acquired through our own research and commercial data bought for the purpose.
CARiMan
Virtual Magazine
The circulation of information is especially important in a large network
such as CARiMan. Moreover, the CARiMan consortium
is organised in such a way, that each partner is linked to others by both
horizontal and vertical connections. As a result a complicated net has been
formed requiring effective information flow.
This includes also the exchange of information on the progress of the research.
The best way to avoid chaos in presenting achievements of the working groups is
to present the results of the performed studies and research in a Virtual
Magazine. The CARiMan Virtual Magazine will have two parts: real life and
technical - each directed by a responsible Editor in Chief. The members of the
Extended Management Board will serve as reviewers (We
may need to add subject experts as necessary). The Editor in Chief will
coordinate the review of the papers and will take the final decision concerning
acceptance or rejection. The CARiMan Virtual Magazine will be published on
CARiMan Web page. This way of publication will offer an open access to the
results of CARiMan activities not only to CARiMan partners but also to everyone
interested. Virtual Magazine will be organised according to modern scientific
journals’ standards:
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manuscripts written in English,
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electronic submission,
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professional review (based on electronic
correspondence),
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short time of article processing,
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high visibility.
The best papers will be recommended for publication in
highly ranked scientific journals.
For the publications especially for WP4: CARiMan
Virtual Magazine (VM)
Publications
logistics and virtual warehouse
CARiMAN is a large and far reaching NOE with
multi-level audiences being targeted through a range of the most appropriate
media. In order to achieve the
maximum communications impact in a cost effective way it will be vital to match
the publications output with the timing of the conferences, events and mailings
where CARiMAN is represented throughout the exploitation programme.
This action will identify the full rolling programme of
internal and external events when publications will be required or could be
distributed to target audiences. This
could include direct mailing activities. Some
publications will be required specifically for certain events. The programme
will be flexible and ongoing as opportunities are identified or become
unavailable or non-viable. The action will define what items will be available
and when to provide for the events programme and quantify volumes, print runs
and logistics to support all events. It will run a virtual warehouse and stock
list identifying items, stock levels, storage locations and owner/publisher.
We will produce a quantified, timed, rolling publications plan, focused
at the dissemination and events programme.
An audit of publications produced and distributed will be conducted.
CARiMAN
website and database
This
workpackage is integrated in the JPA M2 and is devoted to the electronic
interface of CARiMAN with the public domain, specific target audiences and
related websites. The website will
carry the CARiMAN database and the CARiMAN electronic Virtual Magazine (VM).
The work will involve identifying rules cooperation with the editorial
board, submission of papers and the other technical prerequisites for the
database and presentations. The
team will develop a presentation system for the VM and a multilingual user
interface for information access and retrieval.