This module is focused on acquiring a substantial understanding of the development of digital IP and the extent of the current landscape, the development cycle abyss, and methods to overcome it. Other topics will include prototyping methods, translational schemes and finally conversion to function product. These topics will be presented in a way that the learner would be able to critique future products and assess properly what stage they are at, and what methods would be needed to move this idea over the abyss to a function product. This process will be covered in multiple parts to cover the development of data analysis software, database development and curation, digital health (telemedicine) and robotics and other device development.

Digital health has a very important legal framework, eg what is patentable vs trademark vs copyright and what these actually mean legally are highly variable. Students will also get a basic overview of different developmental platforms such as Matlab, Python, C++, Tensorflow, SQL and R, what a project present in each means for process in the developmental path and how this can be improved to make a commercial product.



The module will be based on a mixture of traditional lectures, seminars, tutorials, eLearning and flipped teaching, and will maximise access to diverse speakers drawn from academics who have created start ups and those from the UK based legal and business entities with current expertise in practice with patents, IP and international variants.

This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to :

Engage with the current landscape for digital development including the background of software as medical device, database development, digital healthcare and traditional hardware device development
 Understand the principles, processes and contexts of harnessing big data,
 Understand the landscape regarding development and protection of intellectual property and copyright in the digital age, and the frameworks which inform these
 Understand the principles and processes of hardware and software development, commercial development in both and how the entrepreneurship environments for each are similar and different
 Develop their capacity to identify, evaluate and integrate digital developments within an enterprise scenario