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Research Governance Documentation and Information Guide 12. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The NHS Plan recognises the need for the NHS to develop as an organisation that has innovation at the heart of its business. It commits the NHS to ensuring that innovations are identified and developed in the interests of patients and society as a whole. The Department of Health has published a ‘Framework and Guidance on the Management of Intellectual Property in the NHS'. This Framework and Guidance became operational along with Section 5 of the Health and Social Care Act on 9 September 2002. The Guidance extends the powers of the previous 1998 policy on exploiting intellectual property generated through research and development to include intellectual property generated by all NHS employees in the delivery of health care. This provides a significant step in developing the NHS as an innovative organisation. The framework was designed to help ensure that Intellectual Property derived from NHS R&D is owned and exploited in the best interests of the NHS and the country as a whole, by those best able to do so.
The
NHS as an Innovative Organisation – A Framework and Guidance on
the Management of Intellectual Property in the NHS (2002)
Intellectual
Property in Government Research Contracts. The NHS National Innovation Centre (NIC) aims to speed up the development of pre-commercial technologies likely to benefit the NHS. Its resources include free-to-use online tools to help
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Innovation Hubs
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