For Industry

Stanford encourages and welcomes researchers and industry sponsors working together on research and projects. There are various ways for industry sponsors to work together with researchers at Stanford, such as through a gift, sponsored research, joining an affiliate program, providing materials and data, collaborations, loaning equipment and/or software, and sponsoring fellowships for Stanford students. ICO, specifically, can assist with the following types of agreements:

1. Industry Sponsored Research Agreements (SRAs) are used when companies fund research at Stanford.
2. Material Transfer Agreements (including Human Material Transfer Agreements) govern the transfer of incoming and outgoing materials between Stanford and other entities.
3. Data Use Agreements (DUAs) allow Stanford researchers to receive or share data sets with researchers at companies for research purposes.
4. Equipment Loan Agreements provide the terms for companies to lend equipment to Stanford labs for research purposes.
5. Collaboration Agreements between Stanford and outside researchers allow scientists with common interests to pursue common research objectives without exchanging funding. 

If you are in communication with a Stanford researcher and would like to initiate an agreement, the Stanford researcher can start the process by filling out an ICO Intake Form. 

If you are interested in licensing Stanford technology or would like to connect with a researcher, please contact OTL’s Business Development and Marketing Group at otl-connect@stanford.edu.