Awareness of intellectual property rights for academic entrepreneurship among business educators in universities in Rivers State

Abstract

The study investigated the awareness of intellectual property rights for academic entrepreneurship among Business Educators in Universities in Rivers State. Two specific objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study consists of 48 Business Educators’ in the three public Universities in Rivers State. No sampling technique was used, since the population of the study is of manageable size. However only 46 questionnaires were retrieved and used for the study. Instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire titled “Awareness of Intellectual Property Rights for Academic Entrepreneurship”. Data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation, while Analysis of Variance was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that the level of Business Educators’ awareness of copyright and trademark right for academic entrepreneurship are moderate. Therefore, it recommends amongst others that, University management should provide training on intellectual property rights to sensitized academic researchers to maximize academic research outcomes in the knowledge market