How is academic freedom safeguarded in corporate-sponsored research agreements like EBI?
The Berkeley campus and the UC Office of the President have extensive policies in place to ensure the openness of the research enterprise and the freedom of UC faculty, post-grads, and students to publish their research results without restriction: http://www.ucop.edu/ott/genresources/principles.html http://www.ucop.edu/ott/genresources/unindrel.html All industry research grants and contracts are reviewed by the Industry Alliances Office (IAO) of the Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA) to ensure that they conform to the requirement that they do not carry restrictions on the freedom to publicly disseminate research results. The IAO has responsibility for identifying restrictive clauses suggested by external sponsors. If the external sponsor resists removal of restrictive clauses, the IAO, backed by the Vice Chancellor for Research, refuses to accept the grant or contract under consideration. (This has been necessary on occasion, not only with industry
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