SDG 9.2Patents and intellectual property
UPES helps its researchers protect their inventions and move them towards use in industry, through a dedicated IPR Cell, seed funding and events with industry and government.
Impact
UPES protects the ideas its researchers create and helps take them towards use in industry.
- The IPR Cell helps researchers file patents, designs and copyrights.
- SEED, Anusandhan and SHODH fund research, market-driven innovation and student projects.
- UPES has been a recognised Technology and Innovation Support Centre for Uttarakhand since 2023.
- IPR and innovation. With the DPIIT IPR Chair at IIT Roorkee, the School of Business hosted ICIPR-2025, the International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Pathways to Viksit Bharat, on 26–27 September 2025, bringing policymakers, industry leaders, academics and innovators together on how IP can drive India's development.
Related events
World IP Day panel on music, technology and copyright
The IPR Cell and the School of Law hosted a panel on music, technology and intellectual property in a digital-first world.
Link: LinkedIn post
ICIPR-2025 at the Kandoli campus
With the IPR Chair at IIT Roorkee, the School of Business organised the International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Pathways to Viksit Bharat.
Link: LinkedIn post - From idea to IP. The IPR Cell helps researchers protect their work, while SEED funds research and market-driven innovation, Anusandhan builds research capacity and SHODH supports student entrepreneurship.Source: UPES Research · UPES R&D Newsletter, July–December 2025
Source: UPES R&D Newsletter, December 2025, p. 10, IPR at UPES. 
Source: UPES R&D Newsletter, December 2025, p. 9, SEED and SHODH projects.
This section covers the indicators on patents citing university research and intellectual property support.