Building together a transparent and efficient ecosystem for academic spin-offs
The 4TUs use the National IP Deal Term Principles (Principles) for dealmaking with their spin-offs. These provide a clear, transparent, and balanced framework for agreements between the university and the spin-off regarding the use of intellectual property (IP).
The Principles are intended to bring speed, clarity, and equality to the collaboration between universities and spin-off entrepreneurs and to support the later development of spin-offs. They are based on international best practices and were created with input from universities, investors, and entrepreneurs, with support from Techleap.
The Principles aim to expedite the spin-off process and have a clear agreement about IP access when researchers, staff, and/or students start a company based on university knowledge. This makes the spin-off scalable, and contributes to both societal impact and a healthy financial foundation for further innovation.
Templates
In line with the Principles, the 4TUs have jointly developed templates that further accelerate the spin-off process. The IP License Agreement templates are based on the MVL-toolkit 2020.