Science and academia - and what you an learn - are free, just as intended in Article 17 of the Constitution. A university must - and should be - permitted to exercise this type of freedom, therby protecting its field of action by all means at its disposal.
On one hand, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) safeguard rights to research findings and on the other hand, they document the useful and commercial benefits of scholarly research.
Scholarly creativity and an inventive drive are not ends in themselves, but rather of great potential use in practice. Patents are a benchmark in this respect.
Here are three examples of visualizing just how inventions at the JKU can be applied, demonstrating their potential applications to prospective users. The videos were created as part of the inter-university partnership "Wissenstransferzentrum West" and in close cooperation with the Linz University of Art & Design, opens an external URL in a new window and Las Gafas Films, opens an external URL in a new window:
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IPR Management
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Science Park 5
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+43 732 2468 3060
MAYBE PALERMO or: What E100304 is All About
Cancer currently plagues humanity. As effective as chemotherapy can be, it usually damages both cancer cells and healthy cells resulting in a considerable burden for the patient. Scientists at the Institute of Polymer Chemistry have developed a "transport medium" that takes the cancer drug directly to the cancer cells - and without considerable damage to the healthy cells.
BATTERY BETTY
Scientists at the Institute for Experimental Physics, Department of Soft Matter Physics, opens an external URL in a new window, have created stretchable batteries. This means that, for example, electronic devices could soon be incorporated into textiles along with a power supply. The field of application is consumer electronics, but also medical technology and other fields. The sky's the limit!
CATS, RATS & LOVEBIRDS
The third project of this type from the Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics deals with fundamental aspects of silicon photonics and in particular with electrically operated germanium quantum dot lasers for on-chip applications.
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz, Austria
