School support

Intellectual Property is important to the curriculum with students needing at least 5 days of enterprise tuition per academic year. Through delivery of awareness sessions we promote the importance of IP and the role it plays in business.

To achieve this we work with organisations such as Young Enterprise, Education Enterprise Trust and Education Business Partnership throughout the UK and produce resources that cover all aspects of IP for a range of students and the role it plays in business and enterprise.

Educational resources

Cracking Ideas

Cracking Ideas is a free web based resource featuring the Oscar® winning characters Wallace & Gromit of enterprise, innovation and inventing fame.

Cracking Ideas links to the curriculums of Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales, and uses downloadable teaching resources to bring the subject of innovation, creativity and enterprise into the educational environment.

For further information go to the Cracking Ideas website.

Think Kit

Think Kit is a free resource developed for 14 - 16 year old students to increase their understanding of intellectual property rights.

Through case studies the resource explores enterprise initiatives and IP rights using six real-life scenarios and tells stories about innovators and their individual journeys. The case studies focus on a variety of themes including sport, music, technology, food and design. It aligns itself with the National Curriculum and draws on a number of innovative methods of interaction; the key message to students being that businesses that adopt robust IP strategies will benefit from doing so.

IP issues are explored through interactive presentations followed by discussions, teacher plans and follow up activities with teacher resources running alongside each case study.

For further information go to the Think Kit page.