IPSC Professional Development & CPD · Module 02
Export Controls & Technology Transfer
Understand how governments control the international movement of sensitive goods, software, technology, technical data, and expertise—and what those controls mean for real organisational decisions.
This 3.5‑hour professional development module combines a one‑hour live intensive with 2.5 hours of structured asynchronous learning. It examines 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
This module examines how export controls operate across goods, software, technology, technical data, know‑how, and strategic technology relationships. Participants learn how to identify jurisdictional connections, assess controlled content, screen parties and end uses, and determine when an activity may proceed, requires authorisation, or should be paused.
These controls increasingly shape commercial partnerships, research collaboration, defence supply chains, and access to advanced technologies across the Indo‑Pacific. Exposure can arise even when no physical product crosses a border—for example, through cloud access, technical discussions, foreign employees, engineering support, or transfers between corporate affiliates.
Using the realistic Project Pacific Vector scenario, participants apply a structured assessment method and prepare a concise decision brief for senior leaders.
Live session plus applied learning
One hour live plus 2.5 hours of structured asynchronous learning, including a briefing note, scenario, worksheet, Knowledge Check, and decision brief.
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.
Learning structure
The module moves from regulatory architecture to practical application across transactions, technology transfer, and strategic decision‑making.
Briefing note and framework
Build the foundations: dual‑use regulation, licensing frameworks, jurisdiction, classification, national security rationale, and multilateral coordination.
Project Pacific Vector
Work through a multinational technology‑transfer scenario involving controlled content, technical data, partner jurisdictions, end use, licensing, and re‑export exposure.
One‑hour interactive intensive
Test the assessment method through guided discussion, challenge assumptions, compare options, and identify what may proceed, what must pause, and what requires escalation.
Knowledge Check and decision brief
Confirm understanding, then translate the analysis into a concise 250–350‑word recommendation for a client, executive team, or institutional decision‑maker.
Who this is for
Built for organisations and professionals working where strategy, regulation, and technology risk meet.
This module is designed for organisations that need practical capability uplift, clearer judgement, and stronger decision support in complex cross‑border technology and export control settings.
- Law firms and in‑house legal teams — for practitioners advising on export controls, sanctions, national security regulation, and cross‑border transactions.
- Universities and research institutions — for research, partnerships, governance, and compliance teams managing sensitive technologies, data, and international collaboration.
- Technology, industrial, and advanced manufacturing firms — for leaders managing strategic technology, supply‑chain exposure, licensing issues, and market access constraints.
- Public sector, policy, and regulatory agencies — for professionals assessing export controls, national security implications, regulatory design, and institutional risk in the Indo‑Pacific context.
Enrolment
Enrol or register for 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. IPSC can provide a statement of structured learning hours on completion.