Standard agreements
We have a series of standard agreements to facilitate collaborations between our researchers and companies.
NDAs
We have a standard template for non-disclosure agreements if you need to exchange confidential information between the University and a third party (company, public institution, or a person not employed by the University) and no other agreement is in place to protect this confidential information. When a person is not employed by the University and is working in a laboratory, a specific agreement signed with the University shall be put in place.
Our policy for exchanging confidential information is:
- The confidentiality is only valid for information labeled “CONFIDENTIAL”.
- Information remains the proprietary to the parties and no license or transfer of intellectual property shall be mentioned in an NDA.
Standard NDA
Please use "track changes" if you modify anything and submit the document to techtransfer@unifr.ch for approval.
Industry-funded research projects
We have a standard agreement for direct collaborations between the University and industrial partners. Collaborations between University and industry follows these principles:
- Application-oriented research in fields of mutual interest
- Priority right to file patent applications for the company with exclusive rights in a field of use. UNIFR keeps IP rights outside of the company's field of use.
- Publications: right to publish within reasonable deadlines
- Financing of project cost through partner. Costs include all the direct laboratory costs (salaries, consumables, travel, etc.) + 15% overhead
Standard industry-funded collaboration agreement
Publicly-funded R&D projects (Innosuisse)
We have a standard agreement for the regulation of intellectual property within Innosuisse projects. The main principles are:
- Innosuisse pays the University to help industry
- Commitment of company to collaborate
- Company contribution in cash and/or in-kind
- IP conditions: priority right to file patent applications for the company with exclusive right in a field of use.
- Publications: right to publish within reasonable deadlines