Bringing Universities and Corporations to SRA Negotiations with a Letter of Intent
Recent experience with a Sponsored Research Agreement (SRA) has underscored the potential miscommunication that often keeps universities and corporations from peacefully coming to successful negotiations. So, I’d like to take some time to weed through what each party can (and cannot do) and why, in an effort to clear up some misconceptions and potential frustrations.
How College Rivalry Disrupts Entrepreneurship
College sports fans in the Triangle could learn a lot about healthy competition from the kids we saw at the North Carolina FIRST Robotics Competition. Embodying the concept of Gracious Professionalism™, these students helped each other despite being in a competitive event. It was fabulous to watch. I’ve been thinking about this after participating in a roundtable discussion with members of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and in thinking back on a conversation I had over coffee with a local entrepreneur.
Scratching Beneath the Surface of Collaborative R&D Partnerships
The flow chart below merges together what Henry Chesbrough describes as the two parts of open innovation -— outside-in and inside-out. We have a several recommendations for proceeding systematically and proactively. Let’s scratch just a little bit beneath the surface...
Forming R&D Partnerships: 8 Keys to Success
Karen Hiser’s recent post about qualifying prospects in order to get to a licensing deal was also reminiscent of our experiences with helping Fuentek clients get to collaborative R&D partnership deals. Although in many ways these deal-making processes overlap,...
