Contracts and Intellectual Property
The Contracts Team is part of the Central Support Team within RBI. They manage processes for negotiating and agreeing contracts for UWE's research, consultancy and educational projects. Assistance and advice is also available on matters related to intellectual property, licences and exploitation agreements. For more information please contact us, or if you are a current student or member of staff you can review the internal contracts pages.
UWE's IP Policy
Innovations developed at UWE can be licensed to external businesses, companies or organisations. In consideration of this UWE would expect a share of the economic benefit provided by the innovation and its associated Intellectual Property Rights. Income from exploitation will be distributed in accordance with the University’s Intellectual Property Policy:
- Intellectual Property Policy (PDF*) - Applies to all persons, except for students in relation to courses for which they have registered before 11th June 2007. (Documents referred to in the IP Policy are available from RBI Technology Transfer Office on request)
- Previous Intellectual Property Policy (PDF*) - Applies solely to students in relation to courses for which they have registered before 11th June 2007.
Further information relating to copyright (including copyright considerations and licence information applicable when using UWE resources):
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