Brandeis University Sample Clauses

Brandeis University. The mission of Brandeis University is to educate students and conduct state-of-the-art research. It is to gain new knowledge and understand various phenomena and openly express those results in both the classroom and outside arenas. There are many partners in developing research relationships including the federal government, foundations, and for-profit organizations. Brandeis University encourages the development of appropriate research relationships with for- profit organizations. The purpose of this policy is to allow all parties in these relationships to understand the scope of the arrangements and the procedures and approvals required for implementation. This policy is specifically developed to address situations that arise in negotiations with for-profit organizations in collaboration with University faculty. A separate University policy addresses matters of intellectual property rights. The objectives of the Brandeis licensing policy are to promote the progress of science and technology, to assure that discoveries and inventions are utilized in ways that are most likely to benefit the public, to provide adequate recognition to inventors through royalty sharing and a return to the institution on its investment in research facilities. This policy is established in order to clarify the procedures for all parties involved in the development of research relationships with for-profit organizations and to ensure that the relationship proceeds in an orderly fashion and culminates in a positive interaction between the university and the for-profit organization. We appreciate the availability of the MIT and Cornell University policy on matters of for profit research relationships and conflict of interest, and have modeled our policy after these.