The objectives of the current project are to create/restructure IPR Management Offices in the partner Universities enabling them to efficiently protect and manage University Knowledge, generate more value and stimulate Technology Transfer, to study and benchmark European and local experiences of University services for Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship support, and develop recommendations for structural refoms and to improve the capacity of the partner Universities to attract financial resources for innovation activities via private-public partnerships and securing competitive funding of projects and programmes. The specific objectives are: "· to create/restructure IPR Management Offices in the partner Universities enabling them to efficiently protect and manage University Knowledge, generate more value and stimulate Technology Transfer· To study and benchmark European and local experiences of University services for Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship support, and develop recommendations for structural refoms· To improve the capacity of the partner Universities to attact financial resources for innovation activities via private-public partnerships and securing competitive funding of projects and programmes· To disseminate obtained results and enable their uptake on the national levels."