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PEFILE, Sibongile
Prior to her appointment as Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Group Manager for R&D Outcomes, Sibongile Pefile was the CSIR Intellectual Property and Innovation Manager. With an academic background in pharmacy, which includes an M.Sc. in Pharmaceutics and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology, Dr. Pefile moved into the field of intellectual property when she became Programme Director at the Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development (MIHR). In this capacity, she was responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, and coordination of MIHR capacity development programs in intellectual property management.
Her work as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation led to the formation of MIHR. Prior to consulting for the Rockefeller Foundation, she spent several years working for the Technology and Business Development Directorate at the Medical Research Council, where she was responsible for establishing the Indigenous Knowledge systems office. The office addressed policy, ethical, and intellectual property issues relating to health research and indigenous knowledge systems and technologies. She is a member of several international bodies concerned with intellectual property and its management, and has published and presented numerous papers on this topic. In 2006, she attended the Mastering Technology Enterprises programme, IMD, and completed the UNISA/WIPO IP Law Specialization course.
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Monitoring, Evaluating, and Assessing Impact
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Much has been written about the socio-economic benefits and competitive advantage achieved by developed countries as a result of investing in scientific research and technological innovation. For developing and emerging economies, sustainable development is dependent on establishing and supporting R&D institutions that not only perform good science, but also effectively share their knowledge and technology outputs. Both the extent to which a return on an investment is realized from R&D activities and the magnitude of the resulting impact on intended beneficiaries are important to funders, policy-makers, taxpayers, government officials, development agencies, and the research institutions themselves. This chapter provides guidance on building organizational capacity to plan, monitor, evaluate, and assess the impact of R&D investments. It should be noted that the chapter does not address measuring the performance of a Technology Transfer Office to manage intellectual property, but rather focuses on determining the socio-economic impact of transferred knowledge and technology.
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Training Staff in IP Management
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This chapter provides an overview of training opportunities that developing country institutions can explore to start to address problems related to a smooth implementation and execution of all intellectual property-related aspects (policy, management, procedures, and so forth). The chapter offers to institutions guidelines for evaluating training needs and reviews different kinds of training programs, identifying the pros and cons of each. IP management training is a long-term investment, but a cost-effective one, leading to better utilization of third-party IP resources, more effective internal IP management policies and procedures, and higher efficiency in regard to out-licensing and partnership development. The chapter emphasizes the importance of strategic and practical training programs related to participants’ responsibilities within an organization. Finally, multidimensional case studies are provided to illustrate the myriad issues that may arise with respect to the management of intellectual property.
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