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Research Agreements

To encourage collaboration with industry, our research agreements are simple and straightforward. We offer three options to facilitate corporate collaborations: Research Services, Corporate R&D, and Sponsored Research. The type of agreement is determined based on your research project needs. A comparison is provided below.

  Research Services Corporate R&D Sponsored Research
Type of research
  • Testing
  • Analysis
  • Training
  • Consulting
  • Solutions to specific company problem
  • Product development
  • Market analysis
  • New discovery
  • New applications
  • Applied research
  • Federally funded research
Faculty involvement Limited role Principal Investigator Principal Investigator
Student involvement Generally undergraduate students
  • Key role
  • Primarily Master's and undergraduate students
  • Undergraduate students, support role
  • Master's students, possible thesis
  • Ph.D. students, likely dissertation
Intellectual Property No IP expected
  • IP possible
  • Company to own IP, providing all parties agree
  • RIT retains right to publish, use for education and internal research
  • IP likely outcome
  • Owned by RIT and licensed to sponsor
  • Open to non-exclusive, royalty-free license
  • Negotiations for exclusive license
  • RIT retains right to publish, use for education and internal research
Access to labs & facilities Yes Yes Yes
Duration Short (days/weeks) 1 to 12 months typical 6 months - 3 years
Pricing Determined by project Determined by project Determined by project
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Corporate R&D Program Upgrade - May 2011 - View PDF