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Collaborative R&D
The document discusses the benefits and challenges of collaborative R&D partnerships between industry and academia, highlighting incentives like tax rebates and the importance of understanding each party's goals. It emphasizes the need for effective IP management and the potential value of university collaborations in talent acquisition and technology transfer. Techniques for minimizing risks and enhancing project management in such partnerships are also addressed.
Collaborative R&D
- 2. Collaborative R&D: academia, tax,ip & incentives G-J van Rooyen Software Engineering Colloquium 24 May 2012
- 3. The case forR&D partnerships Short- or medium term access to domain specialists collaborating on your R&Ddf Incentives for collaboration THRIP, S11d rebate Ideal space for development of prototypes or proofs of concept Grow your own talent pool
- 4. The Pitfalls IP management(Stephan) Project management Tech transfer Nature of deliverables (“best effort”) We'll briefly touch on ways to minimise these risks
- 5. Identifying opportunities Good R&Dcollaboration opportunities between industry and academia include: Business need for applied research on non- critical-path technology Exploratory R&D Domain expert required Long-term recruitment
- 6. Let's Make aDeal Deal directly with specialist collaborator Industry and academia: different drivers Understand what both parties want from collaboration Interest is free; focus might not be More about understanding “worlds apart”: http://slideshare.net/gvrooyen/joining-worlds-apart
- 7. Love in theTime of IPRA Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, No. 51 of 2008 Don't let it spoil the love Limits IP rights when state funds were (also) used to create intellectual property Can be managed (e.g. “full cost”) Primary deal risk
- 8. Enjoy your THRIP Technologyand Human Resources for Industry Programme Designed to help industry access expertise at research institutions Government fully or (usually) partially matches contribution by industry partner Can it marry with full-cost model? http://thrip.nrf.ac.za
- 9. Pravin Giveth: S11drebate Section 11d of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (amended) 100% rebate for R&D activities Can be supersized to 150% Narrow innovation-driven definition of R&D Compliance needs to be “baked in” into collaboration agreement Successful use unknown
- 10. Making it work Techtransfer tricky to manage Reports and theses poor vehicles Tech transfer offices are there to help Graduate brains transfer tech extremely well Graduate recruitment tricky to manage Can be extremely valuable screening and recruitment process, if relationships are built over time Prototyping vs. product dev
- 11. Conclusion Collaboration with auniversity can add extremely valuable depth to your R&D Costs can scale from nothing (“interest”) to moderate (“focus”) to full (“assignment”) Can greatly assist with talent acquisition (substantial issue for software companies) Do get in touch!
- 12. Thank You G-Jvan Rooyen gvrooyen@sun.ac.za @gvrooyen sun.ac.za/medialab