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Proactively placing intellectual property (IP) in the public domain has become increasingly important for the advancement of software development and related fields. Leading companies are actively implementing programs to advance the public dedication of IP.

Public Dedication of Intellectual Property elaborates on the key issues from both the company and university perspectives and provides clear guidance for implementation of the public dedication approach.

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Joint Solicitation Comparison Tables
The tables in this resource focus on a relatively novel research funding approach in which the US National Science Foundation co-creates and co-funds research solicitations with companies. Government and industry co-funding calls for proposals (referred to as joint solicitations herein) are important, because they encourage collaboration between different organizations and sectors. The tables listed include details about which companies and NSF directorates have funded joint solicitations, different programs’ funding levels and award durations, the number of awards per solicitation, and the IP approach taken for a representative set of past NSF-company joint solicitations.

Public Dedication of IP Webinar
What does it mean to engage in research projects with a “public dedication” model? Under what circumstances would the key stakeholders in a research collaboration (universities, companies, individual researchers) prefer open IP to alternative models? What are some of the emerging best practices of open collaborative research based on the public dedication model? This webinar addresses these questions from the perspectives of universities, industry, and government, covering the basics of the motivation and the business case, as well as some emerging best practices.

Additional Reading*

Montreal Institute Going ‘Open’ to Accelerate Science

Although some large-scale initiatives like the government-funded Human Genome Project have made all data completely open, MNI will be the first scientific institute to follow that path.

Open Collaboration Principles

Agreement of transfer of trust creating the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

IBM: What is Open Collaborative Research?
Open Collaborative Research is an IBM program that supports software research between IBM and universities that aims to contribute to the growth of open-source software.

Intel Labs’ open collaborative research model.

Intellectual property policy.
Carnegie Mellon University IP policy.

Intellectual property policy.
Washington University in St. Louis IP policy.

Intellectual property policy.
Boston University IP policy.

Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration.
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open-source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects.

Policy on intellectual property.
Lehigh University IP policy.

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