Program Objectives

• The primary object of the interdisciplinary choice based introductory courses at the UG and PG levels is to create IPR literates by exposing students to operational concepts in IPR.
• The object of the choice based interdisciplinary IPR course for the PhD students drawn from diverse departments of the university is to make them appreciate the nuances of IPR and how it is relevant to them in their research process. The linked object is to give the students an opportunity to apply the concepts they learnt to their own research problems and plan their respective research strategies to avoid “rediscovering the wheel” and at the same time initiate the protection of the Intellectual Property created during their research to aid in speedy transfer to application centres / industries for commercialisation.
• A common set of objects of the UG, PG and PhD level choice based interdisciplinary courses is to make the students aware of the relevant community level intellectual property such as Geographical Indications that can be used for socio-economic development in communities.