Role
Knowledge Asset Coordinator
Ideas for Specific Actions
a. Record PSI* activities.
b. Maintain portfolio of PSI* knowledge assets via formal documentation of operational practices. (Important note: This is distinct from student knowledge assets generated through their projects and controlled by the students themselves.)
c. Organize workshops on PSI* methods for encouraging student innovation.
d. Maintain and manage access to an archive of student-generated solutions to recurring technical problems. (“Quantum Publishing.”)
e. Manage relationship with university tech transfer office and oversee communications regarding university intellectual property policies.
f. Coordinate learning about intellectual property strategies and management
i. Maintain connections with the US Patent and Trademark Office
ii. Organize learning opportunities about intellectual property
iii. Organize learning about the patent process
iv. Organize learning about establishing copyrights and trademarks
g. Coordinate open source strategies and production. Explore ways to maintain competitive advantage in an open-source framework
i. Conceptual elegance and sophistication
ii. Outstanding execution throughout a product life cycle or term of service.
iii. Over-the-horizon vision of technical improvements.
iv. Active give and take in collaborative innovation
v. Mindful and caring relations with collaborators, clients, and customers.
h. Distribute an annual physics student innovation “brief” highlighting recent innovation achievements by physics students and graduates.