Given that nowadays it's possible for faculty members to be employed by
a university but own their own companies to conduct research related to
their university projects, sometimes in facilities made available by the
university, I'm sure someone on the list has encountered something like
this and that ways have been devised to do it. However--
Let's see--if an award is made it will go to the applicant corporation,
right? Then the dean, who is an employee of the university, will
administer the project on behalf of--of whom? The applicant corporation
will award a subaward/subcontract to the university (what access will
the dean have to the corporation's contracting function?) and the
university's subaward will be directed--by whom? The time the dean
spends preparing progress reports on the company's grant--who pays for
that time?
At the very least the legal office and conflict of interest program need
to look at this. I should also think that someone other than a dean
should be the PI--that is, university officers at the level of dean
should be unambiguously devoted to serving the interest of their
university employer.
PJD
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-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Rebecca Watercutter
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:31 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] PI question
Has anyone encountered this before? Our dean of engineering is working
with
a couple of local corporations on a proposal to DOE. The dean will be
the PI,
but one of the corporations plans to submit the proposal. Could this
present
problems or is a normal occurance in the world of sponsored research?
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