IPSC Professional Development & CPD · Module 03
Export Controls & Technology Transfer
Examine how dual-use controls, licensing regimes, and strategic technology restrictions affect commercial and policy environments.
This 3.5-hour professional development module explores how export controls shape transactions, research collaboration, technology transfer, market access, supply chains, and institutional decision-making in an increasingly contested strategic environment.
Module overview
A practical module for professionals who need to understand how export controls operate across goods, software, technical data, know-how, and strategic technology relationships.
3.5-hour live CPD intensive
Designed for lawyers, advisers, compliance teams, policy professionals, executives, and institutions dealing with cross-border technology and trade decisions.
Strategic technology controls
The module focuses on dual-use items, classification, licensing, end-use and end-user risks, reexports, and restrictions affecting sensitive technologies.
Commercial and policy application
Participants work through how export controls shape contracts, sales, investment, partnerships, research cooperation, data flows, and supply-chain planning.
Stronger control judgement
Participants leave with a clearer method for spotting export control issues, framing escalation points, and advising on technology-related risk.
Learning outcomes
Participants develop a practical framework for understanding export controls and technology transfer risk across commercial, regulatory, and strategic settings.
Understand dual-use controls
Interpret how dual-use lists, catch-all controls, destination rules, and end-user concerns shape whether exports, reexports, and transfers can proceed.
Read licensing regimes
Understand how licensing requirements, exceptions, classifications, and documentation obligations affect transactions and operational planning.
Assess technology transfer risk
Identify compliance risks in software transfers, technical assistance, research partnerships, in-country transfers, semiconductor restrictions, and sensitive know-how flows.
Advise across institutions
Translate export control complexity into clear advice for boards, legal teams, investigators, universities, companies, and policy audiences.
Session structure
The module moves from legal architecture to practical application across transactions, technology transfer, and strategic planning.
Export control architecture
Overview of the logic of export controls, including dual-use regulation, licensing frameworks, national security rationale, and multilateral coordination.
Classification and licensing
How to think through classification, jurisdiction, destination, end-use, end-user, and the practical consequences of licensing obligations.
Technology transfer and controls
Application to software, source code, technical data, research collaboration, engineering support, and strategic technology restrictions affecting business and policy.
Advisory application
Applied exercise in identifying a control issue, mapping exposure, and drafting a concise note for a client, executive team, or institutional decision-maker.
Registration
Register interest in Export Controls & Technology Transfer.
This module can contribute to CPD requirements for many professional bodies, subject to each organisation’s rules, and is designed for practical application in professional settings.