What financial gains do not involve a conflict of interest?
Not all financial gains are a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest situation generally does not exist when an RIT employee’s personal financial gains result from: • Properly approved remuneration from the Institute such as salary, royalties, or other interests of value. • Income from activities unrelated in any way to his/her position at the Institute. • Income from seminars or lectures sponsored by public non-profit entities. • Income from service or advisory committees or review panels for public or non-profit entities or from service as a reviewer of manuscripts for possible publication by journals and other publishers. • An interest arising solely by reason of investment in a business by a mutual, pension, or other institutional investment fund over which the researcher exercises no control. • Income from royalties from intellectual property unrelated to his/her Institute duties and in which the Institute has no interest.
Not all financial gains are a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest situation generally does not exist when an RIT employee’s personal financial gains result from: • Properly approved remuneration from the Institute such as salary, royalties, or other interests of value. • Income from activities unrelated in any way to his/her position at the Institute. • Income from seminars or lectures sponsored by public non-profit entities. • Income from service or advisory committees or review panels for public or non-profit entities or from service as a reviewer of manuscripts for possible publication by journals and other publishers. • An interest arising solely by reason of investment in a business by a mutual, pension, or other institutional investment fund over which the researcher exercises no control. • Income from royalties from intellectual property unrelated to his/her Institute duties and in which the Institute has no interest. • Income from routine consulting, consistent with th
