Your Project Web Site

A Web site is an excellent way to share information about your project and innovations with interested parties. For example, you can provide information about your development group, answer frequently asked questions, or publish images of the technology that you have developed.

Deciding how much information to publish on your Web site is a difficult task. You may be tempted to withhold information to "protect" your project's intellectual property (IP) for the UW. Digital Ventures views intellectual property as a means to establish relationships with groups interested in that IP, and those relationships can help ensure broad adoption of the IP by the public. Therefore, providing information about your project's technology is important so that these innovations, like other UW technologies, can benefit the public.

However, providing too much information on your Web site can block the path of innovation that you may wish to take with this technology. For example, if the technology is released in an open source format, groups may modify it and "protect" it themselves, thus removing it from the public research space and perhaps even from the UW's ability to further innovate.

Work with your Digital Ventures team member to construct an effective Web site. If your Web site will contain technology under management by Digital Ventures, be sure to include a link to the Digital Ventures site so interested parties can find licensing information. You should also give your Web site's URL to Digital Ventures so that it can link to your project's site.

Follow the outline links on the right side of this page or the previous and next page links below to learn more about setting up, creating, and maintaining your project Web site.

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