Legislation, Management and Technology Transfer

The course will deal with fundamental principles of management of biomedical laboratory, operations and processes, experimental models applied to laboratory medicine, occupational environmental exposure, and population-based studies. The ultimate goal is to aid the student in developing critical thinking and decision-making in relation to knowledge transfer problems and laboratory management.
In addition, the course is designed to familiarize the students with the Omic Research legislative obligations, the technological transfer process of scientific knowledge, starting on the identification of the technology, following with the different alternatives for its protection, evaluation and assessment, to conclude with an overview of the exploitation strategies including the promotion activities and the different types of technology transfer agreements.

At the end of the course students are expected to have developed critical thinking and decision-making skills in relation to legislative obligations and strategies for the valorization of research results, in light of the variety of technologies available for research purposes.