At the Mussallem CHD Alliance, we use either gifts or sponsored research based on the situation. In general, we use gifts when (a) we do not want or need any significant control over the program being funded and (b) we don’t believe there is a significant likelihood of IP being created that would need to be managed either towards commercialization or towards open sharing. Our sponsored research agreement allows us to have staged milestones, directed workplans, revenue sharing & input on commercializeable IP, and open sharing requirements on research tools & data, which wouldn’t be possible in a gift agreement typically.
Orin
President, Mussallem CHD Alliance