Unpacking the Possibilities of Intellectual Properties for Open Science

Advancing knowledge valorisation to enable transdisciplinary and cross-sector knowledge circulation is key to upgrading the European research landscape, resulting in economic, digital, ecological, and social benefits. That is why IP4OS advocates for a concerted Intellectual Property (IP) and Open Science (OS) approach: A complementary and supportive link between agile and fitting IP tools and the sharing of F indable, A ccessible, I nteroperable, and R e-usable (FAIR) research outputs (data, results, codes, etc.). IP4OS's overall goal is to empower multi-professionals and their organisations with awareness, knowledge, skills, and advocacy to valorise FAIR research outputs with effectively fitting IP tools .

Firstly, IP4OS will publish a sound Synergy Framework - a Best Practice Manual mapping the relationship between IP and OS, providing recommendations for best practices. Secondly, IP4OS raises 50% more awareness in the Community of Practice (CoP) by informing about advocates, facts and figures on IP tools that support OS practices. Furthermore, IP4OS will reach 300 trained professionals and additionally (at least) 27 multipliers for multi-professional teams from all European countries via several easy-to-use and sustainable educational resources using the Synergy Framework and the Synergy Core Curriculum. Through all of IP4OS’s activities, the project builds a new CoP for IP management to support OS and addresses 15 specific professions in training who are actors, intermediaries, educators, and learners in the R&I landscape.

With this approach, IP4OS is fully in line with the objectives and impact expectations of the call, namely (1) to identify the complementary synergy of IP management and OS practices by building on existing resources and practices as well as through a co-creative process of a Multi-Professional Community of Practice including experts and actors of the R&I landscape and (2) to anchor these findings in practice-oriented learning resources and bring them into practice through specialised courses to a broad community. With this process, IP4OS follows the call's core objective: the cross-over empowerment of multi-professionals and their organisations to enrich their IP practices with useful OS principles, thus emphasising value creation and utilisation in IP management and increasing European Research Area’s (ERA) benefits.

IP4OS comprises a consortium with complementary expertise from IP management, knowledge transfer and education, research, libraries, and experts from small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) covering legal aspects and dissemination activities. The International Expert Advisory Board (IEAB) comprises renowned representatives from IP and industry, OS, reproducibility, training, knowledge transfer, and entrepreneurship to support the consortium. IP4OS can meet its ambitious goals due to its consortium’s and advisory board’s IP and OS experience, their already established crossover networks and infrastructures, and outstanding expertise.