All members of BDI are party to an Intellectual Property (IP) Agreement which governs any IP generated within the Institute. The IP Agreement facilitates engagement and participation of all of the BDI partners. The number and diversity of partners, and their broad areas of expertise and commercial interests, are catered for by our “inventor-owns” IP model, which facilitates access to and secures returns on IP created in the Institute for all partners.

The IP agreement includes provisions governing the management of IP, including the establishment of an IP Committee, as well as obligations relating to lab notebook maintenance, confidentiality and publication.

A full list of BDI Intellectual Property is available here.

If you wish to learn more about the BDI IP Agreement, please contact:
Emma O'Neill / E: emma.oneill@invent.dcu.ie / P: 01 700 7741

Governance

The Institute’s partners also participate in the management and governance of the BDI. The Industry and University partners have representatives on the Executive Committee – the key decision-making body responsible for the overall running of the Institute, and the IP Management Committee responsible for the overseeing the operation of the IP provisions of the IP Agreement.

The scientific challenge lies primarily in creating miniaturised systems in which the presence of low concentrations of target markers can be reliably detected in small volumes of biological samples.
A team of more than 100 scientists (including as many as 12 researchers from the industry partners) are involved in the programme.