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3 Barriers and Lessons of Effective Practices
3 Barriers and Lessons of Effective Practices
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The importance of building trust between partners and effective "relationship management" emerged time and again during the workshop.The right mechanisms may depend upon the scale and substantive focus of the collaboration. For example, large mega agreements may require regular meetings among senior management of the company and university, as well as regular exchange at the bench level.
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Industry and universities have different time horizons for good reasons. Although some senior management officials in industry are concerned that universities are becoming too short term in pursuing specific projects and collaborations, industry is generally operating on a shorter time horizon than academia.
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Government can also play a role through its funding decisions.The National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center and Science andTechnology Center programs have encouraged partner universities to create mechanisms to recognize effective collaborations. In recent years, a number of universities have sought to implement innovative incentive structures by starting or expanding programs aimed at facilitating the launch and growth of start-up companies based on university research.
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ISSUES OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS Are intellectual property rights an inhibiting factor in research collaboration? Several of the industry participants saw some universities increasingly taking too restrictive an approach to licensing and putting too high a value on their intellectual property contributions.
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Several participants suggested that universities consider forgoing ah proprietary rights outside the biomedical area, essentially putting inventions in the public domain. Other participants responded that many universities do not seek patents on their inventions unless an industry licensee has been identified, and that this approach is more likely to facilitate commercialization than a blanket policy of not patenting inventions outside the life sciences.
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In the area of non-disclosure, one industry participant reported that in the rare instances when there is a need to share confidential information with a faculty member, this can be done with a consulting agreement separate from the sponsored research agreement. Barriers and Lessons of Effective Practices 13
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