 sharing of intellectual property and research findings sharing of intellectual property and research findings 74 admin mon 10142019 1836 number of research institutions with which the initiative project shares their intellectual property rights and research findings to develop new drugs or treatments the indicator assesses the willingness of the initiative project to collaborate and share intellectual property with other research institutions to generate more advanced and improved research outputs with the capacity to generate an impact on patients wellbeing sharing intellectual property can accelerate the development of new products and treatments to maximize their potential additional quantitative patent intellectual property  the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number of years cambridge dictionary initiative scientific report initiative project s internal data count the research institutions with which the initiative project has shared intellectual property or research findings during the reporting period to collaborate in and advance the development of r d for the sake of comparison the initiative project shall report the figure for the two prior reporting periods number in physical units output number of research institutions annually annually this indicator evaluates intellectual property sharing but it does not assess whether the sharing actually leads to new significant discoveries no access to medicine index 2018 methodology report indicator eiii2 p 51 available at  https accesstomedicineindexorg media atmi 2017methodology2018accesstomedicineindexpdf intellectual property 