创新和经济发展办公室做什么?

除了为NDSU的利益建立行业关系外，我们的办公室还管理:

• 行业赞助的研究协议;
• non-financial research agreements; including material transfer agreements, confidentiality/nondisclosure agreements 和 data use agreements; 和
• invention disclosures; including reporting of inventions to research sponsors, 评估信息披露, 和 working with the NDSU Research Foundation in filing for appropriate protection of new inventions 和 plant varieties.

我们对新大的研究机会很感兴趣. 第一步是什么? 

Most projects begin with a discussion between researchers 和 company technical experts to determine how NDSU can contribute to your R&D的努力. 如果你还没有联系到NDSU的个人, the office of Innovation 和 Economic Development can help identify researchers with the appropriate research interests 和 expertise to meet your research needs. 在这些讨论之后，NDSU可以为你们的讨论准备一个研究计划、时间表和预算. 

我的公司需要签署什么样的协议?

在最初的讨论中, your company 和 NDSU researchers may decide that an agreement to protect certain confidential information is necessary.  NDSU对此步骤有一个简单的模板协议.  一旦研究计划被批准, 创新和经济发展办公室将提供一份研究协议供贵公司审阅.  NDSU有几个 赞助研究选项.  

研究什么时候开始?

虽然有特殊的情况，可能需要研究项目开始在一个特定的日期, 在一般情况下, no work will begin on a project before a research agreement has been signed 和 an account for research expenses has been established by NDSU Grant 和 Contract Accounting.  

我们可以在研究项目开始后对其进行修改吗?

可以容纳对活动项目的更改. 这些变化, 包括工作范围, 预算, 或履行期间, will require a written amendment to the research agreement that is signed by each party's authorized personnel. 

谁拥有在我们的研究项目中开发的发明和研究成果?

发明和研究成果的所有权将在研究协议中明确规定.  符合联邦政策和普遍的高等教育实践, NDSU将保留NDSU研究人员开发的所有发明和其他研究成果的所有权.   A sponsor will maintain ownership of all inventions 和 other research results developed by their employees.  当发起人积极参与研究项目时, it is likely that an invention could be developed mutually by the sponsor’s employees  和 NDSU researchers, 哪个会导致发明被共同拥有.

我们怎样才能获得已经开发出来的发明呢?

NDSU has established options for sponsors to obtain access to the research project's inventions with minimal negotiations on fair 和 reasonable terms. 至少, you will recieve a royalty-free license covering all inventions 和 other research results for your own internal research purposes. 除了, NDSU always grants the sponsor the first option to negotiate a commercial license for any inventions that are developed in the course of the research. 

有关其他知识产权条款选项的更多信息可在 从事研究 网页.

如果研究项目涉及现有技术或知识产权怎么办?

Background intellectual property (BIP) is any technology or intellectual property owned or controlled by a party prior to, 或者在外面, 正在讨论的合同协议. 知识产权可以包括发明, 专利申请, 专利, 版权, 商标, 掩模作品, 或者商业秘密. 

如果公司的BIP对你赞助的研究项目的表现是必要的, 在准备工作范围期间，必须向NDSU披露信息. This will ensure protection of the BIP 和 enable a limited license to be granted to NDSU for the term of the project. 

如果您的项目将受益于NDSU BIP, you would be provided the opportunity to discuss the availability of the BIP for licensing prior to inclusion of the BIP in the research project. 

NDSU是否保证或提供对研究的保证?

NDSU不能保证其研究工作的任何具体结果. While NDSU personnel will use reasonable efforts to perform the research project using generally accepted scientific st和ards, 所有的研究, 发展, 或NDSU进行的其他活动和数据, 可交付成果, 其他结果, 这些研究产生的知识产权将“按原样”提供给您.“同样, 当研究产生一项发明时, NDSU不能向您提供适销性保证, 对某一特定事物的适应性, 或者保证发明的实践不会侵犯第三方的产权. 

什么是许可选项? 

NDSU's st和ard Industry Sponsored Research Agreements provides the sponsor with an option to license inventions developed in the course of the research. This option to license provides the sponsor with a time-limited right to negotiate a full license agreement for any invention upon election or request additional time to assess an invention for commercial potential can be accommodated through a separate option agreement. 

我们是否可以审查该研究的出版物?

A sponsor is always granted the right to review manuscripts 和 other public disclosures of research results to guard against inadvertent inclusion of sponsor confidential information as well as to allow time to protect inventions that are described in the proposed publication. NDSU can agree to delay publication up to 90 days to allow a 专利申请 to be filed at the sponsor's expense. 

我如何将NDSU的研究人员包括在我的联邦研究奖励中?

NDSU可以作为次级获奖者参加联邦资助的研究奖.  NDSU的首席研究员将遵循NDSU的标准程序 发展中 和 提交 一个提议.  

如果提案得到资助, 次级裁决的条款将由联邦裁决通知的组合来确定, 高等教育机构的标准条款和条件以及特定机构的要求.

NDSU将如何保护我的机密信息? 

NDSU requires that a nondisclosure agreement or other agreement containing confidentiality provisions be executed prior to the exchange of any confidential information. 一旦协议签署, the exchange of confidential information should be limited to only that information necessary to conduct informative discussions that meet the research projects's objectives. NDSU policy requires that any confidential information that is provided to NDSU must be identified as "confidential" at the time of disclosure. 

是否允许赞助方为NDSU提供研究材料?

It is recommended that a material transfer agreement be in place before you provide any proprietary research materials to NDSU. 另外, 保护材料的合同条款也可以包括在赞助研究协议中. 

NDSU提供哪些类型的服务?

NDSU has numerous centers on campus with the ability to provide services to campus 和 the surrounding community. The Innovation 和 Economic Development Office can connect you with one of these centers or other researchers at NDSU who may be able to provide services under a NDSU 测试服务协议.

新大是否会对研究项目和结果保密?

作为一个公共教育机构, NDSU完全遵循学术自由的原则, 因此, 不会对研究项目的结果进行保密. 州法律和NDSU政策 机密专有信息 和 344 -机密研究 restrict the University from entering into any contract which limits the freedom of the University to disclose (1) the existence of the contract, (2) the general nature of the research to be conducted or (3) the identity of the parties to a research contract. 

然而, NDSU will not publish or otherwise disseminate information that has been provided to NDSU as confidential information. NDSU will provide a sponsor the opportunity to review any proposed publication 和 will delay any publication in order to make a patent filing decision for any invention disclosed in the proposed publication. 

NDSU researchers can agree to maintain data as confidential information in the conduct of a service under NDSU's 测试服务协议, however NDSU will maintain the right to publish any new scientific findings or methodologies that arise in the performance that service.