Do any of you have language in your institutional Consulting Policy or Sponsored Projects Policy that specifically deals with the issue of whether a faculty member's research may be sponsored by a company for which s/he simultaneously serves as a consultant?  My own bias is that this is a VERY bad situation, since the intellectual property terms, for example, in most personal consulting agreements (the company owns it) collide "head-on" with intellectual policy terms in most institutional research agreements (the institution owns it), but I would be interested in the views of others on this issue.  I especially would be interested in seeing how other institutions have dealt with this issue in their policies, i.e., either to prohibit it or to "build a box" within which to permit it.

If you would like to respond to me directly, I will post the responses without institutional or personal identifiers.

thanks,
doug

Doug Wilkerson, Ph.D.              Phone:   (419) 383-4252
Assoc. V.P. For Research          Fax:   (419) 383-4252
Professor of Pharmacology         E-mail:   xxxxxx@mco.edu
Research & Grants Admin.          Web: www.mco.edu/research
Block Health Sci. Bldg., Rm. 148
3035 Arlington Ave.
Toledo, OH 43614-5804

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