Researchers need to think beyond publications: VC

Patiala, March 28

Punjabi University’s Intellectual Proprietary Rights Cell, in collaboration with the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Chandigarh, organised a one-day seminar-cum-panel discussion for drafting of IPR Policy in the university’s Senate Hall.

The seminar was presided over by BS Ghuman, Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University.

BS Ghuman, in his presidential remarks, said Punjabi University would soon formalise its IPR Policy to facilitate and accelerate the filing of patents by faculty and researchers of this university, followed by subsequent transfer and commercialisation of new technologists invented and patented by various departments of the university.

He also stressed upon the fact that there was an urgent need to encourage researchers to think beyond publications and encourage them for carrying out creative and scholarly works for the development of new products and devices.

He also advocated the cause of providing autonomy to the IPR cell along with setting up of an institute for promoting the academic-industry linkage. Dr Ghuman said the major objective of the seminar was to sensitise students and faculty of the university on how IPR could enhance the impact of their research and how it could be used to ensure that the benefits reach common man.

Main speakers and panellists during the seminar were Prof SK Soni and Prof Rupinder Tiwari of Panjab University, Chandigarh. Prof Soni in his lecture discussed and highlighted various aspects like social, economic and legal in context of drafting the IPR Policy concerned. — TNS