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IP seminar – new date
Submitted by Debbie Christopher
The postponed Intellectual Property (IP) Seminar has now been rearranged to Thursday 23rd January 2014 and will be held in Cottesbrooke C326 from 12.00 – 2.15pm.
How do you manage publication vs secrecy?
IP assignment or licence, which option is best?
Delivered in partnership with ProspectIP, this event will introduce attendees to four key areas of intellectual property:
- Concepts and understanding
- Entitlement and Ownership
- Confidentiality, publications and copyright
- Exploitation
The 2 hour seminar will be delivered by IP experts and will cover a range of IP topics. Click here for the full programme.
After the seminar there will be FREE 15 minute 1:2:1’s available for you to discuss any IP queries. To book a slot please contact Debbie Christopher.
Intellectual Property: Seminar from Prospect IP
Update 5/12/13: Unfortunately this event has has had to be postponed. The organisers apologise and hope to rearrange for the new year.
Submitted by Dr Mairi Watson, Deputy Dean, NBS
How do you balance publication vs secrecy?
IP assignment or licence, which option is best?
These and other questions will be addressed in the forthcoming Intellectual Property (IP) Seminar, led by Prospect IP:
- Friday 6th December 2013,
- Senate 201, 11.45am—1.45pm
RDM workshops for Graduate School and NBS – slides available
Yesterday’s research data management (RDM) workshops with Sarah Jones and Marieke Guy of the DCC sparked a lot of interest from researchers. For those that were unable to attend, the slides are here:
Managing your research data – forthcoming workshops
As part of our ongoing engagement with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) we have arranged the following workshops:
- Managing data through the research lifecycle
- Managing your PhD research data
- Research Council requirements for data management
All sessions will be led by experts in data management from the DCC.
2012 EABIS Sustainability Conference report
Submitted by Nadeem Khan, NBS Postgraduate Student.
The University of Northampton was represented at the EABIS Colloquium, held at IMD Lausanne and Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), on 2–5 July 2012. The theme was Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Business. This forum brought together leading academics and Corporate leaders (IBM, Microsoft, Syngenta, Unilever) from across the globe, in dialogue on innovation for sustainability. Delegates from the European Commission and attendees of the Rio+20 Summit were also present.
Conference report: UN Business School representation at the 20th anniversary conference of CGIR Journal
Prof. Kakabadse with PhD students Nadeem Khan and Ourada Dsouli
On 28th – 29th September at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Nadeem Khan and Ouarda Dsouli from UN Business School attended the Conference of Corporate Governance An International Review Journal (CGIR). The joint paper with Prof. Nada Kakabadse is titled – National Governance Bundles: A comparative of G20 Countries and Forbes 200 Corporations (2009-2012).
The paper presented compares and contrasts the social and financial performance of Nations with Corporations based on deeper characteristics such as Board structures; Debt; employment during the post Global Financial Crisis (GFC) era. Where Corporations dominate the top economies in the World (Fortune Magazine, 2011) Governments are grappling with Austerity. Further, a cause of concern is that out of the extra $2.4Tn spent by Nations, $1.9Tn has gone to Bank Bail Outs. Read the rest of this entry
Forum report: IMD and Grosvenor Business Forum in October
Nadeem Khan, PhD student from NBS attended the IMD and Grosvenor Business Forum on 15th October 2012 at which IMD President Dominique Turpin presented – “Leading with a Global Mindset”. The forum was attended by delegates from Industry along with IMD alumni and invited guests.
The essence of the Key Note speech highlighted the critical difference between international and global firms and identified global leaders as being/or having 8 traits: Open minded, sensitivity and empathy, the ability to connect, respect for others, cultural curiosity, multi-lingual, willingness to experiment, cosmopolitan.
Northampton Business School researchers at IFSAM
The Northampton Business School was represented at the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) 11th World Congress held at the University of Limerick, Ireland, 26th to the 29th of June 2012. The congress attracted four hundreds scholars from across the globe to engage in dialogue on the theme of “Management Re-Imagined”.
NBS Seminar
On 16th November the Northampton Business School are holding a seminar for NBS Research Students & Staff.
Associate Professor, Kathleen Mortimer, will talk on “Pitfalls to be avoided when designing a Questionnaire” in the Business School, room C227 at 11am.
Please note: This is for NBS research students and staff only, due to room size restrictions.
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