The Required Intellectual Property Education at Kitami Institute of Technology

Abstract

This report introduces the educational practice of mutual collaboration between the region and intellectual property education, which is characteristic of Kitami Institute of Technology, regarding intellectual property education at an industrial university. Currently, Kitami Institute of Technology offers the course “Introduction to Intellectual Property” as a compulsory subject for second-year students. The goal of this course is to ensure that students graduating as engineering graduates have a correct understanding of the purpose and overview of the intellectual property rights system. In addition, third-year students are offered “Theory of Intellectual Property” as an elective course, which is positioned as a practical course to learn how to utilize intellectual property in the region, based on the study of Introduction to Intellectual Property.