Additional questions

If you are still unsure which model agreement to use, try answering the following questions to help determine an appropriate way forward:

• whose idea was the project?
• what is the purpose of the project?
• why does the collaborator wish to fund the project?
• why does the institution wish to carry out the project?
• what are the relative contributions of the parties in cash and in kind? (Please note that financial contributions might also include, for example, a profit margin in addition to full economic cost, milestones, payment of patent costs, and protection for enforcement/infringement proceedings)