Managerial challenges in intellectual property rights control in open educational settings: Perspectives from management literatures

摘要

Universities have introduced new experiential courses in curriculum offerings as a response to a perceived lack of practical marketing and design experience for students. Although being true in spirit to their predecessors originating from leading educational institutions, the established design-and-entrepreneurship mixed education model elsewhere have only recently raised heightened attention in Taiwan, and questions are growing mostly as to address how to best align students and third-parties' interests with institutional policies to appropriately reflect their non-employment status, lack of engagement in the business of conducting university-sponsored research as with faculty and graduate students. This article continues the author's previous investigation describing the managerial needs in an engineering design course setting in Taiwan. Building on previous research assuming a process approach to consider student's legally debatable behavioral conducts, current article proceeds further to analyze the context under which behavioral conducts can lead to intellectual property ownership disputes. A case study with an ethnographic approach is used to collect data and an archival survey of official university documents and relevant cultural contexts are used to make sense of student behaviors and the unique challenge in managing IP conceived from an open student entrepreneurial course.