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March 1-31, 2007
IP Management Seminar establishes partnership
by Marlowe U. Aquino, PhD
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| Dr. Andrea B. Agillon at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). |
It was a vacation-turned-seminar for Dr. Andrea Agillon in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) from 9 to 14 March 2007 when she visited her friend Dr. Aminah Abdullah, the dean, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.
They were both visiting scientists at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Sydney, Australiain in 1985. Dr. Agillon was still at the ASEAN Postharvest Center in UP Los Baños (UPLB) while Prof. Dr. Aminah was then the chairman of the Food Science Department.
Having noted Dr. Agillon’s latest responsibility at the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR), Prof. Dr. Aminah requested her to conduct a one-day seminar for the faculty and scientists of FST. Armed and prepared, Dr. Agillon happily obliged and made sure that Intellectual Property (IP) management will have an impact and able to increase the level of awareness of the Malaysian UKM staff. The seminar resulted in an exchange of ideas and established partnership with the UKM researchers for IP management.
The seminar was attended by key officials of UKM headed by Prof. Dr. Aminah; Prof. Dr. Nur, deputy director of the Malaysian Genomic Institute; Prof. Dr. Rahmah B.T. Mohamad, Molecular Biologist and Director of the IPO of UKM; Prof. Dr. Osman Bin Hassan, food scientist of the FST; some faculty-members and graduate students from Malaysia, Sudan, and Indonesia.
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| Dr. Andrea B. Agillon lectures on IP Management seminar at UKM, Malaysia. |
During the seminar, Dr. Agillon emphasized the newest trend for R&D outputs – Patent, Protect, Publish, and Profit. This is an improvement of the old conventional researcher/scientist mentality of publish or perish. With this new development, intellectual property management is viewed to boost economic development while supporting the social relevance of researchers and scientists on development programs and activities.
In addition, Prof. Dr. Aminah is very optimistic that there will be an IP Congress in the ASEAN region in the future. Why? Because, she finds the seminar very relevant and worthy for other ASEAN regional universities to be aware of the IP and its consequences for the increasing need of university-based research outputs to be used for development of the ASEAN region.
UKM, through Dr. Aminah, is willing to coordinate the activity for the ASEAN region. As an initial activity, she will facilitate similar IP Management seminars for Malaysian universities with strong research and development initiatives.
Moreover, she hopes to share this concern to other interested organizations, especially in the field of food science and biotechnology, with the prime objective of making profits from technologies developed.
Based on the objective set, she further believes that through IP management, ASEAN countries will be highly competitive on their developed technologies and able to share and exchange information for more responsive and challenging research and development endeavors.
Dr. Agillon concluded that IP management will boost nationalistic concerns for scientists who only want to produce knowledge and do not need the royalties.
The seminar ended with a vision of moving forward to a fruitful partnership through exchanged technologies and professional programs that highlight technology promotion, utilization, application, adoption, and commercialization. 
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