By developing a youth engagement program founded in intellectual property education, COSI will help students learn about owning their ideas. The purpose of the EiPiC initiative
is to engage students to work towards developing and implementing innovative solutions to complex challenges. Empowering students to learn how to pursue legal protection for their ideas at a young age is just one way to foster innovative thinking and support the next generation of entrepreneurs and inventors.

This training and awareness is sorely lacking in undergraduate institutions around the world and yet this is precisely the time to engage students in thoughtful reflection around and pursuit of innovation and IP protection.

Intellectual property is EiPiC! The Extracurricular Intellectual Property Innovation Center (EiPiC) brings together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, IP attorneys, and other experts in conversation to facilitate interactive studios on innovation, intellectual property topics, patents and patent litigation, and “bench-to-business”- taking an idea from concept to the development of a business model.