Welcome to Lab
We provide the best tools for making solutions in STEM, intellectual property works, and SMEs intangible assets a ground breaking success.
For Students, Engineers, Scientist, Creators, Founders, Artist and Talent Managers
Technology
& Design
TD-001: Applied technological thinking and practices
As a prerequisite for all technology and design workshops, if you have ever worked in technology or thinking of doing so, this is a series you will found helpful in your tech career. It will explore fundamental technologies in practices and core requirements for development.
TD-002: Design
Both creative and technical (engineering and scientific) design is the starting point in product idea realization. That is, when designed are birthed, structure for implementation is established. This workshop will deploy hands-on approach to explore the science and art of design.
TD-003: Technology product and solution
What characterizes a true solution? What are the requirement and application of various stages of solution outcomes? These and many more questions in the technical and market domain would be carefully addressed at this workshop.
TD-004: Materials production and technology
There are critical materials needs for technology development. Requirements, availability, utilization, relevance, etc. are often the subject of concern. This workshop will explore the concept of African material deposits and knowledge for technology development.
TD-005: IPR guide for engineering designs and applied science solutions
Great designs and innovation efforts are often undermine by poor or non-existence of relevant IPR practices. To avoid this, innovators must be constantly aware of the technology trends and opportunities, the operative prior art rules, and protection system. This workshop will guide you through the core requirements from start to finish.
Literary
& Artistic
LA-001: Literary and artistic property
Novel creative and artistic works as well as valuable proprietary information create unique property rights in form and applications. However, most creators in this domain are less aware of the technical and legal nature and of their creations, whether as own or commissioned project. This workshop is designed to provide framework which would be useful for making informed economic decision in negotiation and appropriation.
LA-002: Intellectual property business in entertainment and new media
Entertainment, artistic and new media are intellectual property intensive industries. Then, you should care about every business opportunities arising from the originality of your work and peculiarity of your brand. This workshop will guide you through numerous IP business options that are available in entertainment, artistic, new media and proprietary works.
Executive
Intelligence
EI-001: Understanding IP as a profit center
IP is an inexhaustible business asset which currently account for 80-90% of the market value of world top companies. The today’s big brands as well as developed and emerging economies have, as a common denominator, good economic practice for this form of intangible asset unlike how most SMEs and developing economies are managing theirs. This is beyond evidence that IP has economic value which can be appropriated, exploited, or commercialized by the creators, owners or any authorized third party, given all necessary practices are observed. This workshop is designed to provide guidance on various ways to realized value from any type of intellectual property that firms or individual hold.
EI-002: Market leaders in knowledge economy
This is a case based workshop. Participants will learn about the intellectual property management strategies of pre and post millennia market leaders.
EI-003: Open innovation model as a business strategy
The innovation model that is available to a given organization for idea development, implementation and/or commercialization will largely determine the speed of introduction to market/target, R&D cost risk exposure. However, the fundamental fact is that innovation needs multiple players to contribute to technology according to Edelbet Hafele, Michael Beyer and Adrian Eberle. Since the discovery of the model, open innovation has proven satisfactorily efficient on all scales. In this workshop, you will learn how corporation and SMEs are utilizing and applying open innovation model to specific project or as a routine practices.
Talent
Management
TMgt-001: IP issues in Talent Management
There are fundamental IP management practices that apply to the role of HR within organization as well as the responsibility of professional artist managers, the neglect of which is responsible for greater part of unidentified leakage to brand value. This workshop is designed to thoroughly address these critical issues and application in practice.
TMgt-002: Intellectual workforce engagement, placement and post-departure policies
Technology transfer also occurs when educated workers enter an organization workforce. As a result, the intellectual activities of the knowledge workers in or out or workplace often lead to economic liability or legal disputes where appropriate provisions are not defined in the employment contract of the organization. This workshop is designed to provide adequate guide for knowledge management and best practices in structuring employment contract in today’s knowledge age.
TMgt-003: IPM as a business service for professional employer organization
today’s distributed workforce economy, the role of HR organizations with respect to intellectual property management for client companies is becoming critical. As a core service provider in managing in-house or outsourced talents for SMEs and corporations, a well-planned IPM program could represent a significant value addition to client organization which only IP savvy HR organization can provide as a cost efficient offering. This workshop is designed to explore how this highly needed service can be incorporated in the product portfolio of HR organizations.
General
Issues
GI-001: Intellectual Property concepts and practices
Businesses and individuals are constantly creating intellectual property (IP) but majority of these IP owners are still alien to these intellectual resources and their integrality across business units and operations. This workshop will address the concept integrality in business practices.
GI-002: Innovation and problem solving
Problem solving in the invention and technology development context is the fundamental requirement in making innovation work. That’s why successful innovators are great problem solvers. This workshop is designed to equip and qualify participants as professional solvers.
GI-003: Innovation thinking and intellectual property strategy
There are specific intellectual property strategies that are required at each level in the innovation process. This workshop will explore the adequate application and relevance of both formal and informal protection alternatives in the process of creating new value.
GI-004: Innovation in the African context
This workshop is recommended for inventors and founders who have ongoing innovation activities for or from African’s domestic economy and all participants of any of our listed workshops.
GI-005: Academic startups entrepreneurship model and practices
In the absence of sound entrepreneurship orientation with respect to possible opportunities arising from research efforts or adequate understanding of appropriate part to commercialization, the academia will continue to under serve the industry and produce insignificant number of innovation output, especially in Africa. This workshop is designed to provide the necessary information, network and inputs for ambitious researchers who can deliver real impact by taking solution to the market themselves, selling right, licensing, or spin-off.