b'Data and IP ManagementIP ACTION PLAN DATA MANAGEMENTWe have been implementing NBICs intellectualNBICs partner universities and staff acknowledge property (IP) management plan to have greater IPand adhere to BBSRCs Data Sharing Policy, and data access and ultimately facilitate identification ofare committed to making all data, models, and unmet needs in biofilms. As part of our IP strategy: materials generated through NBIC activities available to the academic community in a timely NBIC has created a basic IP repository that willand appropriate manner. This commitment expand over time. This repository represents theis upheld while ensuring the protection of living IPR database that identifies project outcomescommercially sensitive information, intellectual and retraces their ownership. As NBIC growsproperty (IP), and academic publication priorities.and matures it is pivotal to have central system that allows data scalability, and security. NBIC isNBIC is actively developing a strategy to organise, working on an online searchable database thatmonitor, and improve accessibility to the data can easily handle large amounts of data and cangenerated across the consortium. Our central grow along with NBIC. The database aims to store,model for data management includes:organise, and retrieve data to help partners identify their own IP assets and determine whether anyAppointment of Data Champions at each NBIC third-party rights exist (e.g., relevant pre-existingpartner university to oversee compliance with patents). The IP repository will be built to be theinstitutional data management policies.most comprehensive database of biofilm-related IPDevelopment of a central index cataloguing data available for licensing. This will complement NBICsgenerated by the consortium, with references existing role for university-business relations. to relevant Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).With the support of the research and innovationCreation of an open access, searchable database, services and IP managers, NBIC is actively conductingtranslating the central data index into a user-in-depth patent searches in identified strategic areas,friendly platform that serves as the primary as well as market surveillance to assess the currentreference point for NBIC data, enables transparent state of the art. This work is tailored to NBICsdata access for the academic and research needs to ensure that its results are truly innovativecommunity and excludes commercially sensitive and do not infringe the rights of third parties. Theseand IP-restricted data from public display.searches are performed using PatSnap and will be useful for orienting IP strategy definition (e.g., byThese initiatives have been thoughtfully identifying any barriers). We will also define thedeveloped to position NBIC as a central hub state of the art and keep updated on technologyfor biofilm-related reference data.advancements by the regular monitoring of market.28'