Research Contract Management

The Research Office will assist you with:

1. research funding tender or grant applications and research agreements with non-commercial entities
2. research scholarship applications and scholarship agreements

Sydnovate will assist you with:

1. research agreements with commercial entities
2. Linkage Industry partners agreements
3. scholarship agreements which are linked to a research agreement with a commercial entity
4. consultancy and testing agreements
5. Tenders for research and/or consultancy for commercial entities.
6. patent licences and other IP licences
7. material transfer agreements
8. outgoing confidentiality agreements protecting the University’s IP
9. visitors agreements

Non-commercial entities include all Government departments, including the ARC, and not-for-profit organisations, other universities, charities and public research funding bodies such as Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) and research foundations.

Commercial entities include for-profit companies and partnerships.

For all CRC applications and agreements please contact the University’s CRC Manager, Dr Nino Quartararo by calling extension #17911 or on email at .

University of Sydney - Standard Agreements

SydnOvate's Professional Servics Unit has developed a series of standard agreements available at http://www.usyd.edu.au/sydnovate/staff-standard-agreements.html

These cover areas such as:

• Contract and Collaborative Research
  Consultancy
  Testing Services
  Material transfer
  ARC Linkage partner agreements
  Confidentiality
  Student IP Assignment
  Visitors

To protect both you and the University from risks (liabilities, ownership of IP, conflicts of interest, insurance, performance requirements etc) and to ensure compliance with University policies, SydnOvate is responsible for negotiating agreements with commercial entities.