Licensing Executives Society - Arab Countries Organizes Essential Principles and Tools for Licensing? Course

The Licensing Executives Society - Arab Countries held recently a specialized training course entitled "Essential Principles and Tools for Licensing "in cooperation with the Support to Research and Technological Development and Innovation Initiatives and Strategies Program (SRTD)

AMMAN --------October 10, 2010--------- The Licensing Executives Society - Arab Countries held recently a specialized training course entitled " Essential Principles and Tools for Licensing " in cooperation with the Support to Research and Technological Development and Innovation Initiatives and Strategies Program (SRTD), a program funded by the European Union and aims at increasing Jordans scientific and technological capacities through the promotion of research and innovation and linking them to the private sector, accelerating the integration of the Kingdom in the field of European research and contributing to the economic development of Jordan.

The program included the establishment of offices in a number of universities and research centers in the Kingdom for technology transfer.

The course lasted for five days and was attended by a number of officials from the technology transfer offices. The course has also received significant interaction of the participants, as said course aims to provide participants with basic information regarding rules and bases of Intellectual asset management and licensing in terms of technology assessment and negotiation of transactions.

Expert Christy Mitchell, member of the Licensing Executives Society (Britain and Ireland) and the executive director and founder of Highbury Company has given the lectures of this course.

Ms. Mitchell enjoys more than 26 years of experience in the management of intellectual assets and licensing which has had the greatest impact on enriching the participants through the information and expertise she has provided in this area. In addition to Ms. Hams Mdanat, LES-AC member and executive director of internal training and continuing education at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization, who has got quite a long experience in the field of training and management.

At the end of the course, Ms. Mitchell stated that the use of licensing and technology transfer as a means to develop the business is rather new in Jordan. Therefore, licensing and technology transfer must be exploited for marketing purposes in the business sector and universities due to their impact on economic development. She stressed that it is very important to take the intellectual property system into

consideration by the officials of the various industrial companies and universities and to apply a system for managing intellectual assets.

The Licensing Executives Society - Arab Countries
The Licensing Executives Society - Arab Countries is the first Arab regional society specialized in licensing and technology transfer. It is a non-profit society concerned with the development and education of the business community on the economic importance of licensing and protection of intellectual property rights and technology transfer. It is one of the members of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), which includes 32 national and regional associations around the world. www.lesarab.org.