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MODULE 3
FREE ELEC 4 - TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
2nd Semester, SY 2020-2021

9 F’S COMMON COMPONENT OF TECHNOPRENEURSHIP

Did you know? Technopreneurship is not just about technology. So, what exactly
to be a technopreneur? And how can you be one? Let’s find out how these
technopreneur create success by getting down to the components.

Many of the tasks, if not all, have pre-requisites (i.e. money, materials, personnel, etc.).
it is similarly for technopreneurial venture to start, grow and succeed, it must also have
the required resources, environment and support. Its learning objectives are at the end
of this session/lecture, the students should be able to: enumerate the different
actors/players for the technology ventures to prosper and define the roles of the
different actors/players in techno ventures.

Succesful technopreneurship = H-E-L-P. Techno Ventures has HUMAN RESOURCES,

ENVIRONMENT LAWS & POLICIES and FINANCIAL RESOURCES.

Human resources components are: 

 Research who is the thinker, idea generator and innovator. 
 Developer who is the implementor, technical people. 
 Scanner and marketing people and Financer.  

Environment component are:

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  Science parks and incubation centers, Academic Institutions and R & D
centers, Internet access and Communication, Communication and other
Support Services, Geographic accessibility and Venture Mentoring
Services/Support. Incubation is the programmers provide incubation services
to assist technology start-ups in their vulnerable stages, enabling them to grow
and flourish. It supports office space and facilities, technical and management
assistance, promotion and development assistance, business support and
financial aid package.  

Laws and Policies, it is the Intellectual Property Rights Office, Technology Licensing
Office – facilities commercialization of Inventions and Legal Services. 
 Financial Component is the investor, Business Sector, Funding Agencies and
Financial Services (i.e. Accounting).

             To start the ball rolling there should have Innovation who person gets an idea,
active search, by chance, present employment or experience. Triggering Event - career
prospects and deliberate choice. Implementation and last Growth. There are also three
(3) vital common components for business: 1. excellent market opportunity – customer
Need and timing, 2.  superb entrepreneur (and management team) – with the right
opportunity, the business will be successful if led by a person with strong
entrepreneurial and management skills, and 3.  resources needed to start the company
and make it grow.

               Seed money is sometimes known as seed funding. It is a form of securities

offering in which an investor purchases part of a business. The term seed suggests that
this is an early investment, meant to support the business until it can generate cash of
its own or until it is ready for further investments. Seed money options include friends
and family funding, angel funding and – recently – crowd funding.

            Tapping Family and Friends is tapping personal ties to raise cash for a
company that’s either too new or too small to get financing elsewhere is an age-old
formula that still makes sense. Blood money is hitting up family and friends are the
most common way to finance a start-up. It’s also the riskiest. Borrowing it is avoiding
problems with family and friends, wen entrepreneurs borrow start-up capital from family
member or friends, it’s best to prepare for the worst – before it happens. Borrowing
money for your business whether you borrow money from a bank or someone you
know; you should sign a promissory note – a legally binding contract in which you
promise to repay the money. Steps to borrowing from family or friends are keeping

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the relationship professional is the key to successful borrowing from close
acquaintances. Try bank borrowing bank financing isn’t impossible. Look into
government programs – some entrepreneurs say government programs are easy to
secure financing form; others say steer clear of them. Regardless of the opinions, if
you’re serious about your capital search, you shouldn’t overlook government
programs. Find an angel – angel investor will not only share their money; they’re also
great sources of knowledge for fledgling businesses. Get creative – banks and
investors aren’t the only ways to fund a business. Check out these unconventional
resources that some business owners have used. Use credit cards – plastic can jump-
start any business, but use it wisely.

             The nine (9) F’s are:

1.) Founders- first class entrepreneurs.
2.) Focused- focus on niche markets, specialize.
3.) Fast - decision making and implementation.
4.) Flexible - open minded and can respond to change.
5.) Forever innovating. 
6.) flat – organizations.
7.) Frugal – low overhead, productivity high.
8.) Friendly – to their customers, suppliers and workers.
9.) Fun – to be associated with an entrepreneur company.

What is Intellectual Property (IP)?

This refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literacy
and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and
designs used in commerce. IP is divided into
categories: industrial property, which includes
inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs,
and geographic indications of source and last is
copyright, which includes literary and artistic works
such as drawings, paintings, photographs and
sculptures, and architectural designs. 

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)– intellectual property rights are the rights given to
persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive
right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time. Intellectual property
code of the Philippines, Republic act No. 8293 on June 6, 1997, this is an act
prescribing the intellectual property code and establishing the intellectual property
office, providing for its powers and functions, and for other purposes.

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            A patent grants an inventor exclusive right to make, use, sell, and import an
invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the
invention. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem, which may be a
product or a process. It is issued by the government through the intellectual property
office of the Philippines (IP Philippines). Exclusive right granted for a product, process
or an improvement of a product or process which is new, inventive and useful. This
exclusive right gives the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, or
selling the product of his invention during the life of the patent. A patent has a term of
protection of twenty (20) years providing an inventor significant commercial gain. In
return, the patent owner must share the full description of the invention. This information
is made available to the public in the form of the intellectual property official gazette and
can be utilized as basis for future research and will in turn promote innovation and
development.
The official Gazette is the public journal and main publication of the government
of the Philippines. http://www.gov.ph/ . A patentable invention has a technical solution
to a problem, in any field of human activity, it must be NEW, it must involve an
INVENTIVE STEP, and it must be INDUSTRIALLY APPLICABLE. A useful machine for
statutory classes of invention is the following: a product or composition, a method or
process, an improvement of any of the previous invention, microorganism, and non-
biological microbiological process. Discovery of non-patentable inventions are scientific
theory, mathematical methods, scheme, rule and method of performing mental act,
playing games, doing business, program for computer, method of treatment for human
or animal body by surgery or therapy & diagnostic method, plant variety or animal breed
or essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals, artistic
creation and contrary to public order or morality. Requirements for patentability are
novelty – originality, inventive step – creativity and industrial applicability –
manufacturing and developed.
An inventive involves an inventive step, if having regard to prior art, it is not
obvious to a person skilled in the art of obviousness which not beyond normal progress
of technology and skilled person which ordinary practitioner who is aware of common
general knowledge in specific art. Natural person and juridical person or body of
persons, a corporation, a partnership or other legal entity recognized by law may apply
for a patent.
Contents of the specification are the following:
1. Title of the invention.
2. Abstract of the disclosure.
3. Background of the invention.
4. Summary of the invention.
5. Brief description of the drawings.
6. Detailed description and
7. Claims. Applicant or inventor can prepare the patent application.

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What is a trademark? Why is it important?

Trademarks

            
Trademark is a tool used that differentiates goods and services from each other. A
trademark can be one word, a group of words, sign, symbol, logo, or a combination of
any of these. Generally, a trademark is a very effective tool that makes the public
remember the quality of goods and services. Once a trademark becomes known, the
public will keep on patronizing the products and services. Utilized properly, a trademark
can become the most valuable business asset of an enterprise. In addition to making
goods and services distinctive, the owner of a mark may earn revenues from the use of
the mark by licensing its use by another or through franchising agreements. 
Service mark is same as trademark, but for a service. Trademark can be protected
through registration. Registration gives the trademark owner the exclusive right to use
the mark and to prevent others from using the same or similar marks on identical or
related goods and services. The right to a trademark is granted to the one who first files
a trademark application with the IP Philippines. Before applying for trademark
registration, it would help if you conduct a search in the trademark database to
determine if there are identical or similar marks that would prevent the registration of
your mark.

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 This is to prevent future conflicts with marks that are already registered or with
earlier filing dates. The trademark protection granted by IP Philippines protects your
mark only in the Philippines. If you want you mark protected outside the country, you will
need to file applications in the countries where you want your market registered. Your
mark should be able to distinguish your goods and services from those of others. Your
mark should also meet the requirements for registrability of marks under Sec. 123.1 of
the intellectual property codes. You mark will not be registered if it is descriptive,
misleading, generic and customary to trade, consists of names, portraits or persons,
maps, flags and other political symbols, shape and color, marks that may cause
confusion and identical with, or confusingly similar to Well – known marks.

The requirements to apply for registration are

1. A duly filled out trademark application form [you can access link from site].
2. Drawing of the mark.
3. Payment of fees. 

Trademark Infringement is a mark that is likely to cause confusion with a

trademark already existing in the marketplace. Trademark Counterfeiting is the
deliberate copying of a mark. Trademark Dilution is the value of the mark is substantially
reduced through competition or through the likelihood of confusion from another mark.

What is copyright?
            It is the protection for authors of original works whether published or
unpublished. It covers original works of authors, composers, screenwriters, and
computer programmer. Owner has the sole right to print, reprint, sell & distribute, revise,
record and perform the work. “Original work” refers to every production in the literary,
scientific and artistic domain. Among the literary and artistic works enumerated in the IP
code includes books and other writings, musical works, films, paintings and other works
and computer programs. Works are protected by the sole fact of their creation,
irrespective of their mode of form of expression, as well as their content, quality and
purpose. Thus, it does not matter if, in the eyes of some critics, a certain work has a
little artistic value. So long as it has been independently created and has a minimum of
creativity, the same enjoys copyright protection.

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