Considering the emerging challenges and issues of semi-arid tropics, and the changing agricultural research environment, there is a need to strengthen ICRISAT's position in the area of Intellectual Property management in line with ICRISAT's vision and strategy. Accordingly, an Intellectual Property (IP) Management Office was established in February 2002 at Patancheru to meet the growing demands in IP management.

The IP office provides essential vision, training, backstopping and information flow for ICRISAT scientists in intellectual property management. As part of on-going dissemination, this page provides basic information on intellectual property, ICRISAT's IPR policy, access to various material transfer agreements and links to IP-related websites.