IBridge adds Oz university

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) intellectual property (IP) is now available on the iBridge Network, a non-profit initiative by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The iBridge Network now has on its website Easy IP Access, which connects researchers and industry partners at no cost and using agreed licensing agreements. Katie Petersen, director of iBridge, said: "The collaboration with the Easy Access IP community will allow the partner universities to become part of a global marketplace of ideas and collaborations."

UNSW, which has also set up a Venture Incubator Space in its School of Computer Science and Engineering, is the first Easy Access university in Australia after starting the programme last month so the majority of its IP is available for free. Kevin Cullen became head of New South Innovations, the university’s commercialisation company, having pioneered Easy Access while director of research and enterprise at the University of Glasgow. As well as UNSW and Glasgow, the members of the Easy Access university group include the University of Bristol, Kings College London, University of Copenhagen and Ottawa University.

Separately, Dave Waddell has left after eight years managing technology transfer and research systems at University of Edinburgh to set up a company, Licensable Technology, which provides users with regular statistics detailing click through rates on each of their technologies from the http://www.LicensableTechnology.com database.

The database currently hosts more than 5000 technologies from over 50 research organisations world-wide.

Waddell said: "The LicensableTechnology.com site is now indexing and providing search on over 12,000 technologies from 120 organisations, quite an increase in only 4 weeks since the initial release went out.

"Within the next few days, InnovationBulletin.com will go live which does the same indexing and search provision on innovation news from TTO’s and other relevant sources from around the world."